Wisconsin My Home

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WISCONSIN My Home W ISCONSIN LA ND A ND LIFE Arnold Alanen Series Editor WISCONSIN MY HOME THURINE OLESON As told to her daughter Erna Oleson Xan THE UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN PRESS The University of Wisconsin Press 1930 Monroe Street, 3rd Floor Madison, Wisconsin 53711-2059 uwpress.wisc.edu 3 Henrietta Street London WC2E 8LU, England eurospanbookstore.com Copyright © 1950, 2012 by the Board of Regents of the University of Wisconsin System All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any format or by any means, digital, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, or conveyed via the Internet or a website without written permission of the University of Wisconsin Press, except in the case of brief quotations embedded in critical articles and reviews. Printed in the United States of America library of congress cataloging-in-publication data Oleson, Thurine, 1866– Wisconsin my home / Thurine Oleson as told to her daughter Erna Oleson Xan. — [2nd ed.] p. cm. — (Wisconsin land and life) Introduction by Odd S. Lovoll. isbn 978-0-299-28874-7 (pbk. : alk. paper) — isbn 978-0-299-28873-0 (e-book) 1. Oleson, Thurine, 1866– 2. Frontier and pioneer life— Wisconsin. 3. Norwegians—Wisconsin. 4. Wisconsin—Social life and customs. I. Xan, Erna Oleson, 1898– II. Lovoll, Odd Sverre. III. Title. IV. Series: Wisconsin land and life. ct275.o45a3 2012 977.5ⴕ043092—dc23 [B] 2012013285 Dedicated to The Oleson Children With all the love of our hearts ...