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Cover of the book "The Rise of Jonas Olsen"

The Rise of Jonas Olsen: A Norwegian Immigrant’s Saga

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The Rise of Jonas Olsen is at once an immigrant novel, business novel, political novel, and a western, offering a rich and panoramic view of Scandinavian immigrant life in the Upper Midwest. Author Johannes B. Wist combines realism and satire to depict the role Norwegian Americans played in the economic, political, and cultural life of the Upper Midwest.  

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The following is the table of contents from “The Rise of Jonas Olsen: A Norwegian Immigrant’s Saga.”

  • Book I. Scenes from the Life of a Newcomer: Jonas Olsen’s First Years in America
  • Book II. The Home on the Prairie: Jonas Olsen’s First Year in the Settlement
  • Book III. Jonasville

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