A Long Pull from Stavanger: The Reminiscences of a Norwegian Immigrant
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Birger Osland fashions the title of this spirited autobiography from Kipling’s song of the Vikings in Puck of Pook’s Hill– a song that recalls Norsemen pulling from home from far journeys. The author’s own story does not lack a Viking touch, but it is the saga of modern Norseman who pulled away from Stavanger and across the Atlantic to the American Middle West– to Chicago, with its “railroads, factories, and stockyards, mud, smoke, and smells.” These reminiscences have their setting in American urban life, but they range far beyond the limits of the great city on Lake Michigan in which…
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