O Pioneers!
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"Alexandra, daughter of a Swedish immigrant farmer in Nebraska, inherits the family farm and finds love with an old friend." "The heroic battle for survival of simple pioneer folk in the Nebraska country of the 1880s. John Bergson, a Swedish farmer, struggles desperately with the soil but dies unsatisfied. His daughter Alexandra resolves to vindicate his faith, and her strong character carries her weak older brothers and her mother alng to a new zest for life. Years of privation are rewarded on the farm. But when Alexandra falls in love with Carl Linstrum, and her family objects because he is poor, he leaves to seek a different career. After Alexandra's younger brother Emil is killed by the jealous husband of the French girl Marie Shabata, however, Carl gives up his plans to go to he Klondike, returns to marry Alexandra and take up the life of the farm." Haydn. Thesaurus of Book Dig.
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Edition identifiers ISBN-10 2070381382 · ISBN-13 9782070381388
Subjects
- Fiction
- Women pioneers
- Women farmers
- Farm life
- Swedish Americans
- Women immigrants
- Brothers and sisters
- Frontier and pioneer life
- History
- Immigrants
- Swedes
- Classic Literature
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Edition1989 · Ramsay
- Extent
- 310 pages
- Language
- French
- ISBN-10
- 2070381382
- EAN-13
- 9782070381388
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External search linksEdition2016 · CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
- Extent
- 212 pages
- Language
- French
- EAN-13
- 9781533626288
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