"The Memoirs of Athena M. Lyseth," compiled by the Lyseth family. Athena Lyseth finished high school at the age of 17, and ventured out of her south Minneapolis neighborhood to be a rural school teacher. There she met her husband, a farmer named…
The story of Jens Martinius Olson's early life as told to a grandchild by an emigrant from Porsgrunn, who came to the United States in 1888. He sailed on the Great Lakes for a time.
"Alone on That Prairie," excerpts from a memoir written about 1930 by a woman as she recalls the difficulties of life on a homestead in Rosebud County, Montana. With her Norwegian-American husband she had begun living in Montana in 1914. The story…
