title: Norwegians in America, their History and Record, Volume 1, by Martin Ulvestad (Norwegians in America, their History and Record: A translated version of the 1907 and 1913 Nordm&aelig;ndene i Amerika, deres Historie og Rekord, Volume 1)
author:  Martin Ulvestad 
description: Volume 1 (of a 3 volume set). Translated into English by Olaf Tronsen Kringhaug and Odd-Steinar Dybvad Raneng. Transcribed from Gothic script by Benjamin Keith Huntrods. Edited by Margit Nysetvold Bakke. Ulvestad's Foreword and Prehistory translated by Alexander Knud Huntrods. Indexed and Published by Deb Nelson Gourley, Astri My Astri Publishing. Hardcover, 480 pages, maps, index contains 5,700 names, Norwegian American Genealogy Martin Ulvestad compiled the Norwegian-American pioneer stories by sending out 163,000 small books and pamphlets along with 450,000 circulars and forms to the early immigrants and their families. He then published the 1907 and 1913 oversized (now rare) books. This bilingual English-Norwegian Volume 1 includes both an English translation as well as a Norwegian transcription from pages 1-250 of the 1907 Gothic script. The sagas tell of where the pioneers emigrated from in Norway, immigrated to in America, genealogy, life and hardships on the emigrant ships, canal boat and cattle car journeys to the Midwest, sickness, oxcarts, dugouts, sod huts, numerous pastors and churches, livestock and crops, grasshoppers, prairie fires, blizzards, Indian Wars and more. Areas included are: USA - 41 states and 500 counties: Illinois, Wisconsin, Iowa, Minnesota, South Dakota, North Dakota, Washington, Alabama, Alaska, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Indiana, Kansas, Louisiana, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, Ohio, Oklahoma, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Virginia and West Virginia. Plus Pre-History, Indian Territory, District of Columbia and the story of the emigrant ship "Valkyrien". Canada - 6 provinces: Alberta, British Columbia, Manitoba, Ontario, Quebec and Saskatchewan.
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  COPYRIGHT 1984 BY 
  ALFRED A. KNOPF, INC. 
  All rights reserved. No part of this book may be 
  reproduced in any form without permission in 
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  view to be printed in a magazine or newspaper. 
  FIRST AMERICAN EDITION 
  First published in book form as 
  ETAPPER (Ny Rakke) 
  by H. Aschehoug & GCo., Oslo, 1933 
  MANUFACTURED 
  IN 
  THE UNITED 
  STATES 
  OF AMERICA
  
  PREFACE TO THE ENGLISH EDITION 
  AxL the articles here collected were originally written 
  for Catholic publications in Norway and Sweden.® 
  It 
  goes without saying that very few Catholics here in Scan- 
  dinavia— whether converts or children of Catholic par- 
  ents—can have very much knowledge of those pages 
  of the history of the Catholic Church which the offic