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CHAPTER IV.
Future Hopes — Farm Liie — Norwegian Pioneers— The Condition of the
Immigrant at the Beginning of the Fifties — Religious Meetings — The
Growth of the Settlement—Vasa Township Organized — A Lutheran
Church Established — My Wedding—Speculation— The Crisis of 1857 —
Study of Law in Red Wing—I am admitted to the Bar and elected
County Auditor—Politics in 1860 — War is Imminent.
We had now commenced a new career, located on our farm
claims in the boundless West, with no end to the prospects
and possibilities before us. We felt that independence and
freedom which are only attained and appreciated in the
western wilds of America.
rom the Mississippi river and almost to the Pacific Ocean,
was a verdant field for
the industry, energy
and enterprise of the
settler. To be sure, our
means and resources
were small, but
somehow we felt that by
hard work and good conduct we would some day attain the
comfort, independence and position for which our souls
thirsted. We did not sit down and wait for gold mines to
open up before us, or for roasted pigs to come running by our
cabin, but with axe and spade went quietly to work, to do
our little part in the building up of new empires.
In the beginning of May, my father came from Illinois and
brought us a pair of steers and a milch cow; this made us
—4-r, —
our wagon.
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