The Genealogy Gems Store
by Laura Wattenberg by John Fante (See Episode 21) - (See Episode 24) Book One introduces Karl Oskar and Kristina Nilsson, their 3 young children, and 11 others who make up a resolute party of Swedes fleeing the poverty, religious persecution, and social oppression of Smaland in 1850. - in 1850 as the emigrants disembark in New York City. Their journey to a new home in Minnesota Territory takes them by riverboat, steam wagon, Great Lakes steamship, and oxcart to Chisago County. III - focuses on Karl Oskar and Kristina as they adapt to their new homeland and struggle to survive on their new farm.
IV - The Nilsson family live through the turmoil of the Civil War era and Dakota Conflict and prosper in the midst of Minnesota's growing Swedish community of the 1860s-90s.
