Description
Book SynopsisPresents insight into the co-operative endeavour of plains settlement. This title offers touching vignettes on the rituals of courting. It provides an account of pioneer life and an unmatched resource for historians.
Trade Review"This diary is in many ways as charming as its title. With the enthusiasm and innocence of young adulthood, Johnson records several years of his life as a first-generation Swedish American farmer in Nebraska and the greater Plains region. His entries vividly depicts the scenes and people of the late 1870s and early 1880s, ranging from farming to the girls he courted and the various accidents, fights, and other events common to frontier life. . . . This title will be of great interest to regional libraries."—
Library Journal"A fascinating insight into late 19th-century agricultural practices, economic and ecological challenges, and the complexities of community building. . . . Wonderful and lively insight into various American Indian cultures."—Brad Birzer,
Journal of the West
