Red Rust Author:Cornelia James Cannon Pioneer with a Dream... Frontier Minnesota was a hard land. The immigrant Swedes and Germans cleared the forest to make fields. They lived in brush lean-tos and log huts. They planted their corn and potatoes among the stumps. And always they worked-men, women, children and oxen-from before dawn until after dark. In the little settlement of Ne... more »w Sweden lived Matts Swenson, a laughing giant who was considered a bit queer by his neighbors because he took time off from work to watch how plants and animals and birds live and grow. He read everything he could lay his hands on. And he had a dream-to develop a new variety of wheat that would withstand the harsh winds and driving hail, that would ripen sooner and produce bigger yields and, most important of all, that would resist the devastating blight threatening to impoverish the entire farming population-red rust. This is his story.« less