Sons of the Old Country - Hardcover

Ager, Waldemar

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0803210167 ISBN 13: 9780803210165

Publisher: University of Nebraska Press, 1983

Synopsis

Frederik Berg, Isak Isaksrud, and Ole Brekke, young Norwegian immigrants, become friends in the years before they face the dangers of the Civil War

About this title

From the Back Cover:

First published in 1926, "Sons of the Old Country" is a lively, fast-moving novel about Norwegian immigrants who worked in the lumber mills of Wisconsin before and during the Civil War. Readers will be reminded of the pioneer sagas of Ager's countryman, Ole E. Rolvaag.

These early immigrants are a vigorous, likable, hard-working lot. In summer they work in the sawmills; in winter, the logging camps. They brawl, make love, read the Scriptures, tell yarns, and struggle always to form a community. They came to America for highly individual reasons, and their integration into a new society is hastened by the Civil War. The "sons" fight on the Union side; some are imprisoned at Andersonville.

About the Author:

Waldemar Ager (1869-1941) edited a Norwegian newspaper in Eau Claire, Wisconsin, near the locale of his novel. Sons of the Old Country was translated by his son, Trygve M. Ager. The foreward by Odd S. Lovoll discusses Ager's place in Norwegian-American literature.

About this edition

• Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
• Publication date: 1983
• ISBN 10: 0803210167
• ISBN 13: 9780803210165
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 277