Author : Wendy Peteresen Biorn
Publisher :
Page : 20 pages
File Size : 22,5 MB
Release : 2017-05-16
Category :
ISBN : 9780991563913
A tourism book that documents the Historic Andrew Peterson Farmstead, Waconia, MN.
Author : Dewey Thorbeck
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 23,5 MB
Release : 2016-10-04
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 1317384350
Architecture and Agriculture: A Rural Design Guide presents architectural guidelines for buildings designed and constructed in rural landscapes by emphasizing their connections with function, culture, climate, and place. Following on from the author’s first book Rural Design, the book discusses in detail the buildings that humans construct in support of agriculture. By examining case studies from around the world including Australia, China, Japan, Norway, Poland, Japan, Portugal, North America, Africa and the Southeast Asia it informs readers about the potentials, opportunities, and values of rural architecture, and how they have been developed to create sustainable landscapes and sustainable buildings for rapidly changing rural futures.
Author : Vilhelm Moberg
Publisher : Minnesota Historical Society Press
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 28,92 MB
Release : 1995
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780873513227
Considered one of Sweden's greatest 20th-century writers, Vilhelm Moberg created Karl Oskar and Kristina Nilsson to portray the joys and tragedies of daily life for early Swedish pioneers in America. His consistently faithful depiction of these humble people's lives is a major strength of the Emigrant Novels. Moberg's extensive research in the papers of Swedish emigrants in archival collections, including the Minnesota Historical Society, enabled him to incorporate many details of pioneer life. First published between 1949 and 1959 in Swedish, these four books were considered a single work by Moberg, who intended that they be read as documentary novels. These editions contain introductions written by Roger McKnight, Gustavus Adolphus College, and restore Moberg's bibliography not included in earlier English editions. Book 4 portrays the Nilsson family during the turmoil of living through the era of the Civil War and Dakota Conflict and their prospering in the midst of Minnesota's growing Swedish community of the 1860s-90s. "It's important to have Moberg's Emigrant Novels available for another generation of readers."--Bruce Karstadt, American Swedish Institute
Author : Lauraine Snelling
Publisher : Baker Books
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 50,56 MB
Release : 2006-05-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1441203184
Proud of Their Heritage and Sustained by Their Faith, They Came to Tame a New Land She had promised herself that once they left the fjords of Norway, she would not look back. After three long years of scrimping and saving to buy tickets for their passage to America, Roald and Ingeborg Bjorklund, along with their son, Thorliff, finally arrive at the docks of New York City. It was the promise of free land that fed their dream and lured them from their beloved home high above the fjords of Norway in 1880. Together with Roald's brother Carl and his family, they will build a good life in a new land that promises untold wealth and vast farmsteads for their children. As they join the throngs of countless immigrants passing through Castle Garden, they soon discover that nothing is as they had envisioned it. Appalled by the horrid stories of fellow immigrants bilked of all their money and forced to live in squalid living conditions, the Bjorklunds continue their long journey by train as far as Grand Forks. From there a covered wagon takes them into Dakota Territory, where they settle on the banks of the Red River. But there was no way for them to foresee the price they will have to pay to wrest a living from the indomitable land. The virgin prairie refuses to yield its treasure without a struggle. Will they be strong enough to overcome the hardships of that first winter?
Author : Vilhelm Moberg
Publisher : Minnesota Historical Society Press
Page : 449 pages
File Size : 18,75 MB
Release : 2008-10-14
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0873517156
The second book in Moberg's classic Emigrant Novels series.
Author : Carver County Historical Society (Carver County, Minn.)
Publisher :
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 14,67 MB
Release : 2014-06-15
Category : Dakota War, Minnesota, 1862
ISBN : 9780991563906
Two Wars on the Frontier is the compilation of the diaries by Swedish immigrant A.J. Carlson. Carlson, a 19 year old volunteer in the 9th Minnesota, Company H, joined the army to "free the slaves", but found himself being sent to fight in the US-Dakota War, first. His diaries were first published in the East Union News by his 12 year old son, an aspiring newspaper editor. The diaries were lost for over 120 years, but through a stroke of luck they are now available for everyone. Carlson's self named, Two Wars on the Frontier, is an incredibly balanced view of this transformational time in U.S., Minnesota, and Carver County history.
Author : Steven R. Hoffbeck
Publisher : Minnesota Historical Society Press
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 26,5 MB
Release : 2014-12-11
Category : Farmers
ISBN : 0873517369
Making hay has always been hard work, just about the hardest work on a farm. Spanning 150 years, The Haymakers tells a story of the labor and heartbreak suffered by five families struggling to make the hay that fed their livestock, a story not just about grass, alfalfa, and clover, but also about sweat and fears, toil and loss. The Haymakers is an epic -- the history of man's struggle with nature as well as man's struggle against machines. It relates the story of farmers and their obligations to their families, to the animals they fed, and to the land they tended. Hoffbeck also documents and preserves the commonplace methods of haymaking. He describes the tools and the methods of haymaking as well as the relentless demands of the farm. Using diaries, agricultural guidebooks and personal interviews, the folkways of cutting, raking, and harvesting hay have been recorded in these chapters. In the end, this book is not so much about agricultural history as it is about family history, personal history -- how farm families survive, even persevere.
Author : Josephine Mihelich
Publisher : Ford Graphics Johnson
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 14,23 MB
Release : 1984
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN :
Author : Clarence R. Geier
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 49,72 MB
Release : 2017-02-10
Category :
ISBN : 9781541023482
The book includes six chapters that cover Virginia history from initial settlement through the 20th century plus one that deals with the important role of underwater archaeology. Written by prominent archaeologists with research experience in their respective topic areas, the chapters consider important issues of Virginia history and consider how the discipline of historic archaeology has addressed them and needs to address them . Changes in research strategy over time are discussed , and recommendations are made concerning the need to recognize the diverse and often differing roles and impacts that characterized the different regions of Virginia over the course of its historic past. Significant issues in Virginia history needing greater study are identified.
Author :
Publisher :
Page : 960 pages
File Size : 42,39 MB
Release : 1994
Category : Historic buildings
ISBN : 9780891332541
Lists buildings, structures, sites, objects, and districts that possess historical significance as defined by the National Register Criteria for Evaluation, in every state.
