Cutbank girl Author:Rolfsrud, Erling Nicolai (c)1985: Cutbank girl takes a fictional Alexandria, MN family to western ND in 1908 to a homestead they inherit. Here the Millers who speak only English find themselves in a settlement of immigrant homesteaders who speak only Norwegian. — From electric lights to kerosene lamps and lanterns, from buggies and horseless carriages to riding on a ston... more »eboat, the Millers make many changes in life styles on the prairie. Young Sara meets her greatest challenges in a sodhouse school where she is the only pupil who can read and write English.
"Rolfsrud remains one of the most prolific and popular ND authors. This white-haired chronicler of the Flickertail State has published 23 books and many stories and articles." ---Rick Killion, North Dakota Horizons, Fall 1984« less