Here are the stories of the hardy North Dakota pioneers who came to North Dakota in search of land and an opportunity to live in freedom in the last part of thes and earlys.
Recorded in the middles by interviewers working in a Works Progress Administration WPA project, those who settled the land tell "the way it was" for them when they came to the frontier.
Gleaned from over,stories which are stored at the State Historical Society of North Dakota, Germans from Russia Settlers, Book Four in a series of memories of the frontier experience, collects eighteen of the personal histories of those who came to that endless sea of grass that challenged their strength and spirit as they broke the sod and farmed the land.
Each book is illustrated with photographs from North Dakota collections, .