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1) Still
Author
Publisher
North Dakota State University Press
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
xvi, 350 pages : illustrations, maps, portraits, fascimiles, music ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
More than four hundred Russian and Romanian Jewish homesteaders settled on about eighty-five farms in McIntosh County, North Dakota, beginning in 1905. After clearing rocks and boulders, growing wheat and flax, raising cattle and chickens, and selling cream from their sod houses, most were successful enough to own their own land. This is a history of five generations, a family we meet first as they flee Odessa and last as they make their ways as American...