Giants in the Earth
a saga of the prairie
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Word Count
113,250 words, Guess
Page Count
453 pages
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- Open LibraryOL18360149M
- ISBN-100060830476
- OCLC Control Number2821834
- Internet Archivegiantsinearths00rl
- Library of Congress Control Number65006531
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- LibraryThing189368
- Goodreads1966107
Description
The novel describes struggle of Norwegian settlers in eastern South Dakota, based on the actual lives of the author's parents in law. The settlers make progress, then face further problems, such as grasshoppers eating their wheat. In the end, the protagnist freezes to death in a snow storm and his wife struggles with sanity. It is in the same general area and era as Laura Ingalls Wilder's "By the shores of silver lake" and "The long winter", the latter describing the same winer of 1880-1881 in which Rolvaag's Per Hansa dies.
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The classic story follows the lives of a Norwegian pioneer family as they make their way from Norway to the Dakota Territory, and their struggles with the land and the elements as they try to make a new life in America.
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