Here are the stories of the hardy North Dakota pioneers who came to North Dakota in search of land and an opportunity to live in freedom in the last part of the 1800s and early 1900s. Recorded in the middle 1930s by interviewers working in a Works Progress Administration (WPA) project, those who settled the land tell "the way it was" for them when they came to the frontier. Gleaned from over 5,000 stories which are stored at the State Historical Society of North Dakota, Germans from Russia Settlers, Book Four in a series of memories of the frontier experience, collects eighteen of the personal histories of those who came to that endless sea of grass that challenged their strength and spirit as they broke the sod and farmed the land. Each book is illustrated with photographs from North Dakota collections. Book jacket.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Grassroots Press, T.H.E.
ISBN-10
0965077845
ISBN-13
9780965077842
eBay Product ID (ePID)
119631495
Product Key Features
Book Title
Germans from Russia Settlers BK. 4
Number of Pages
112 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
1999
Topic
United States / General
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
History
Author
D. Jerome Tweton
Book Series
The Way It Was Ser.: the North Dakota Frontier Experience