Giants in the Earth | Social Concerns
Giants in the Earth was O. E. Rolvaag's most influential novel. It chronicles the story of a group of Norwegian pioneers who make the long trek from a fishing village in Norway through Canada to Spring Creek, in the Dakota Territory. Although the westward migration means opportunity, the settlers must contend with the isolation and monotony of prairie life, with primitive housing, with long, frigid winters, and with crop-destroying infestations in summer. These conditions are hard enough for people of robust nature, eager for a new life, but for people of delicate sensibility,...
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