<p>Description from the back cover: "Here are the stories of the earliest pioneers of North Dakota told by those who experienced the decades of the 1879s, 1880s, and 1890s. Recorded in the middle 1930s by interviewers working in a Works Progress Administration (WPA) project, those who settled the land tell "the way it was" for them when they came to the frontier. Gleaned from over 5,000 stories which are stored at the State Historical Society of North Dakota. Norwegian Homesteaders, Book Two in a series of memories of the frontier experience, collects sixteen of the personal histories of those who came to that endless sea of grass that challenged their strength and spirit as they broke the sod and farmed the land.  Each book is illustrated with photographs from North Dakota collections."</p>

The Way It Was: The North Dakota Frontier Experience - Book Two: Norwegian Homesteaders

J. Tweton

Grass-Roots Press

Here are the stories of the hardy North Dakota pioneers who came to North Dakota in search of land and an opportunity to live in freedom in the last part of the 1800's and early 1900's. Recorded in the middle 1930's by interviewers working in the Works progress Adminstration WPA project, those who settled the land tell "the way it was" for them when they came to the frontier.

Germans from Russia Settlers: The North Dakota Frontier Experience (Way It Was)

History

<p>Here are the stories of the earliest pioneers of North Dakota told by those who experienced the decades of the 1870s, 1880s, and 1890s. Recorded in the middle 1930s by interviewers working in a Works Progress Ad-ministration (WPA) project, those who came to the first towns in northern Dakota Territory and North Dakota tell the way it was when they came to the frontier. Gleaned from over 5,000 stories which are stored at the State Historical Society of North Dakota, The Townspeople, Book Six, the final book in a series of memories of the frontier experience, collects  sixteen of the personal histories of those who came and lived in the first towns, most often created by the railroad companies as a center of commerce for those who came to break the sod and farm the land, that endless sea of grass that challenged their strength and spirit. This book and the other five in the series are illustrated with photographs from North Dakota collections.</p>

The Townspeople (Way It Was...)

Biographies & Memoirs

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The Way It Was: The North Dakota Frontier Experience - Book Two: Norwegian Homesteaders

Germans from Russia Settlers: The North Dakota Frontier Experience (Way It Was)

The Townspeople (Way It Was...)