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...EMIGRANTS???Johan Bojer? Century ($2.00). From land that is steep and stony to soil that is flat and fertile, from the hills and fiords of Norway to the North Dakota prairies, leads the road of the emigrant?the struggling peasant family, the fiddling goatherd from the hills, the Colonel's daughter, the son of a small farmer and fisherman of the Lofotens. Them and others of several kinds, three families and four bachelors, Mr. Bojer follows across the sea to the virgin plain; follows them as they turn the first furrow in the prairie sod, as they build sod houses...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fauts and Folly | 12/7/1925 | See Source »

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