Live well : the letters of Sigrid Gjeldaker Lillehaugen / edited by Theresse Nelson Lundby, Kristie Nelson-Neuhaus, Ann Nordland Wallace.
Material type: TextLanguage: English Original language: Norwegian Publication details: Saint Paul, Minn. : Western Home Books, c2004.Description: vii, 158 p. : ill. ; 23 cmISBN:- 0929636309 (pbk. : acidfree paper)
- 9780929636306 (pbk. : acid-free paper)
- Letters of Sigrid Gjeldaker Lillehaugen
Item type | Home library | Collection | Call number | Materials specified | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds | |
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Adult Book | Dr. James Carlson Library | NonFiction | 978.401092 L729 | Available | 33111005265141 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
LIVE WELL tells the story of Norwegian immigrant Sigrid Gjeldaker Lillehaugen and her family as they homestead on the North Dakota prairie. Spanning the years 1889 to 1923, this series of letters to her parents provides a colorful, firsthand view of pioneer life.
Primarily letters to her parents in Hallingdal, Norway, written between 1892 and 1923 by Sigrid Gjeldaker Lillehaugen who immigrated to the United States where she joined her husband Tosten in Minnesota, and in 1888 homesteaded in Dakota Territory.