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"We must recognize the true heroism of the men and women who braved the hardships and suffered the privations of frontier life in the thirties, forties, and fifties". Flom, George, Norwegian Immigration to the United States, p. 17.
"It was the boldest that set off first", from Vilhelm Moberg. Semmingsen, Norway to America, p. 38.
"Of strong and rugged physique, inured to hardship, industrious and energetic and possessing courage, will power and infinite patience they faced alike the primeval wilderness and boundless prairies and by sheer force tamed the wild nature for the permanent blessing of mankind," wrote Minnesota Railroad and Warehouse Commissioner O. P. B. Jacobson n 1921. Lovell, Odd, The Promise Fulfilled, p. 143.
"If only we Norwegian Americans could learn to will the impossible as much as our ancestors have done"! Rølvaag, Concerning Our Heritage, p. 51.
He overcame all opposition, conquered every obstacle, defied every difficulty. Mountains, oceans, deserts, rivers, must not hinder his purpose." Nelson, O. A., History of Scandinavians in the United States, p. 20.
Minnesota recognizes territorial pioneers in a big way.
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pioneers in your family so that we can honor them here.
