A New Beginning

About the Book

The story focuses on Dora, the Adamson’s fourth child, who marries Sam Berg, a Norwegian emigrant. “Sam buys a cook car to be a part of his threshing outfit and moved along with the machinery to the first farm where the threshing would begin. The cook-car was set up, the fire was started in the cook stove, and the water was set on for coffee. That first evening, they would have ham sandwiches, baked beans, potato salad, and cake, and just let the first man complain. Dora had already baked hardtack, cookies, bread, rolls, pies, and cake. This would help for the first day. In the morning, she flew into the task of getting breakfast for the hungry crew. Bacon, eggs, fried potatoes, fried ham, pancakes, and bread. That should do it, she thought.”

About the Author

Here on the plains of North Dakota, John and Mary Adamson and their children find the dream of land by homesteading, but how would they survive the cold winter in the little twelve-by-twelve-foot shack built from old boards and straightened nails?