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...relationship between the prairie land and the men who exhausted it is symbolized by the life of redheaded Pier Frixen and his wife, Nertha. Pier took over his father's farm in 1918. But he quarreled with the old man about marrying silver-blonde Nertha, who was half Norwegian. His father wanted Pier to marry a Frisian girl. "Soan, dy faem is net goed genoch [Son, that maiden is not good enough]," he said. Pier raged at the old man's nonsense about Ald Fryslan on the North Sea shore. So his father went out to brood, looking...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Regional & Unique | 3/31/1947 | See Source »

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