Song of The Pines: A Story of Norwegian Lumbering in Wisconsin

By Marion Havighurst, Walter Havighurst

An orphan, fifteen-year-old Nils joins the Svendsen family and other Norwegian emigrants as they head toward America in the 1850s. They travel to Wisconsin where they stake out a claim for a farm. Nils, having found work in the lumber camps, creates his own business and future in America.


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