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Very Good in Very Good-dust jacket. Hardcover. 8vo. Published by John C Winston, Philadelphia, PA. 1949. Xi, 205 pgs. Land of the Free Series. First Edition/First Printing. DJ has light shelf-wear present to the DJ extremities. Bound in cloth boards with titles present to the spine and front board. Boards have light shelf-wear present to the extremities. Previous owner's name present to the FFEP. Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid. A fifteen-year-old Norwegian boy arrives in America hoping to make his fortune in the new settlements in the Wisconsin territory.; Land Of The Free Series; 8vo 8"-9" tall; 205 pages.
Nils Thorson, a 13-year old orphan boy, is given refuge in an inn one winter night. Hearing the stirring words of a man who has been to America, has seen the woods and prairies of Wisconsin, he determines to go himself, taking with him his father's grind stone. (Google Cleng Peerson, the man named in the story)
Chance links him to a young family also on its way, giving the reader a fuller picture of why Norwegians were moving west in the middle of the 19th century.
This book, first published in 1949, is full of charming tidbits (Nils scoops up and carries with him a handful of American earth that Peerson has spilled in his eagerness to show the farmers gathered in the inn the rich soil) as well as sufficient detail of the logging industry and the problems of making land claims to create a rich story that is both engaging and colorful without being tedious.
Written with the younger reader (10 to 15) in mind, it retains all the little hooks that made me love it when I first read it at age 10 in 1952 and that re-captured me in 2015 when I bought an old copy to entertain a recuperating young friend.
Richard Floethe named above has nothing to do with the book: I don;t know why his name is there.
