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"Memories of a Prairie Girlhood" in the 1870s and 1880s. See obituary in Rowberg File of Mary's father Andrew E. Paulson (born Christiania 1840, emigrated 1868 to Fillmore co., Minn., homesteaded near Canby, Yellow Medicine co., Minn. In 1878). Vivid pictures of the eldest daughter's life in a family of nine children, of the trip by ox-team to Canby, life in dugout homes, prairie fires, blizzards, school and social life. In 1922 Mrs. King was living in Tigerton, Wisconsin. "Compiled by Ethel M. King in loving memory of her mother. No effort was made to edit or change the original transcript."
Nybygger-breve fra Amerika, a compilation of 33 letters by Abraham Grimstvedt, who lived in Nissedal, Telemark, Norway, were intended for publication in Norway. The letters, written by Grimstvedt's three sisters and their husbands living in Dane County, Wisconsin; Fillmore County, Minnesota; and Decorah and Lake Mills, Iowa, give a favorable picture of life in America. The topics most often discussed are health conditions, farming, school, church, and transportation. The letters were published, with extensive introduction and footnotes by Øyvind T. Gulliksen, by NAHA-Norway and the Nissedal Historielag, as "Saa nær hverandre" (1999), in the NAHA library collection.
A pamphlet concerning the emigration of Seraf Holter's grandparents Christoffer Olson Holter (1827-1866) and Anna Holter (1827-1922) from Nannestad, Norway, in 1862 and their first years in America. They came on "Nordlyset" to Quebec, and went on to Koshkonong, Wisconsin; later to Fillmore County, Minnesota, and finally to Kandiyohi County, Minnesota. The pamphlet included information about Nannestad and Rundalen, Voss. Two sons became Lutheran clergymen and editors: C. C. Holter (Seraf Holter's father) and K. C. Holter, who founded the K. C. Holter Publishing Company in Minneapolis.