Brustuen, Annie J. Olson]]> Frontier and pioneer life]]> Minnesota]]> Norway--Emigration and immigration]]> Swift County (Minn.)]]>

• Wagon train
• river crossing
• Bruno Arnold family
• Thor Brustuen
• Long Lake
• prairie fires
• melted silver
• Matt Bystad
• Blizzard of 1873
• grasshoppers
• Peder Ness marriage
• Peder Emmerson twins
• Amund Paulson
• poet Ole Hegstad
• John Wilson
• formation of Hegbert township, named for two founders, Bertness Christianson and Ole Hegstad
• mortgages
• Sandbro farm
• picnics
• speakers Albert Lang and Congressman Rev. O.J. Kvale
• Sonora Brustuen, Appleton
• Oliver Haugland, Milan
• Margaret, Camillla and Alice Persen
• Mildred Hentzen, Melba Brustuen, Alice Freeman
• 4th of July 1890, Andrew Akre
• Jens and Maren Pederson.
  Translated letter from Annie Brustuen written to sister Rönnag, 20 August 1885. Topics: Death of Ingeborg Swedsmo and Guri Raastad
• Anne Nilsdatter Moen marrying Peder Foten
• baby girls born to Marit Ofun and Kari Mo.
  Translated letter from Kari Mo to her brother John Olson Feb 16, 1889. Topics: 20 years apart
• death of minister Pastor Selmer, replaced with Holmbo
• living children Anna (who had a birth defect of the mouth) Iver, Ole, Mari, Kari and Hanna
• dead children Thor, Kari and Hans, all dying between ages one and three.
  Translated letter from Ole Mo to John Olson, Feb 21, 1892. Topics: Thanks to John for helping children Anne and Iver get to America
• Son Ole is leaving for America, asking for help in securing a position for him
• shortage of feed in Våga
• new railroad from Lillehammer to Sel.
  Letter from Kari Mo to John Olson, March 22, 1903. Topics: Anne has had her defect repaired (harelip)
• Kari opened coffee house and took in lodgers
• lots of debt, asked for help from America to alleviate suffering
• asked for help with their debt.
  Letter from Kari Mo to Annie Olson, Jan 29, 1908. Topics: Thanks for sending picture
• news of blind niece Nora
• sending picture postcard.
  Translated letter from Kari Mo to John Olson, Feb 2, 1913. Topics: Thanks for sending money ($5)
• encouraged John to send daughter Annie along to visit her.
  Translated letter from Kari Mo to John Olson, June 27, 1916. Topics: Siblings are all getting older

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