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Genre/Form: | Diary Biography diaries Biographies Diaries Journaux intimes Journal intime |
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Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Johnson, Rolf, 1856-1922. Happy as a big sunflower. Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, in association with the Nebraska State Historical Society, ©2000 (OCoLC)606399155 Online version: Johnson, Rolf, 1856-1922. Happy as a big sunflower. Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, in association with the Nebraska State Historical Society, ©2000 (OCoLC)627236269 |
Named Person: | Rolf Johnson; Rolf Johnson; Rolf Johnson; Rolf Johnson |
Material Type: | Biography |
Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Rolf Johnson; Richard E Jensen |
ISBN: | 0803276141 9780803276147 |
OCLC Number: | 43790455 |
Notes: | "Bison books"--Preliminary page. |
Description: | xxxii, 270 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm |
Contents: | 1. Illinois homeland -- 2. The trip to Nebraska -- 3. Phelps County, Nebraska -- 4. Summer rambles in eastern Nebraska -- 5. Back to Phelps County -- 6. The buffalo hunt -- 7. Home again, politics and romances -- 8. The harvest circuit -- 9. More politics and romances at home -- 10. The execution of Stephen D. Richards -- 11. The Black Hills and the southwest. |
Responsibility: | Rolf Johnson ; edited and with an introduction by Richard E. Jensen. |
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"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 * 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 -- Brad Birzer * Journal of the West * Read more...


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