The settlers
Book - 1995
Karl Oskar and Kristina Nilsson struggle to prosper on their new farm in Minnesota during the 1850s. Kristina, coping with a feeling of loss for Sweden and the difficulty of adapting to a new land, draws strength from a new found spirituality. Karl Oskar brings more land under cultivation and harvests rye, wheat, and corn. Together they survive blizzards, grasshopper plagues, wildcat speculation in currnecy, and self-righteous neighbors.
- Subjects
- Genres
- Domestic fiction
Fiction
Historical fiction - Published
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St. Paul :
Borealis Books, an imprint of Minnesota Historical Society Press
1995.
- Language
- English
Swedish - Main Author
- Other Authors
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- Physical Description
- xxix, 399 pages ; 21 cm
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages xxvii-xxix).
- ISBN
- 9780873513210
- Preface: The land they changed
- Part one: foundation for growth
- New axes ringing in the forest
- The whore and the thief
- Planning and planting
- Guests in their own house
- Man and woman in the territory
- Starkodder the ox
- Ulrika in her glory
- "That Baptist ilk"
- Hemlandet comes to the immigrants
- Surveying the forest
- The letter to Sweden
- Part two: Gold and water
- The march of the hundred thousand
- A youth who is not young
- But the returned gold seeker does not sleep
- The first night
- Robert's ear speaks
- While the riches lay hidden in the house
- The second night
- Robert's ear speaks
- The missing gold seeker
- The third night
- Robert's ear speaks
- Wildcats of many breeds
- The fourth night
- Robert's ear speaks
- The unget-at-able
- The fifth night
- Robert's ear speaks
- Wildcat riches
- A stream that runs toward greater waters
- Part three: Blessed woman
- The queen in the kitchen
- The year fifty-seven
- The letter from Sweden
- Karl Oskar's followers
- A blessed woman's prayer
- Partners of America
- If God doesn't exist ...
- Prayer granted
- To reconcile oneself with fate
- The letter to Sweden.