The Sloopers, Their Ancestry and Posterity,
The Story of the People on the Norwegian Mayflower - The Sloop, "Restoration"
CONTENTS
| Acknowledgement | xiii | |
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PART I: THE YEARS TOGETHER (1825-1850) |
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| I. | BEGINNINGS - Napoleon and the Quaker book | 3 |
| II. | DEPARTURE - The project caused amazement in Stavanger | 12 |
| III. | THE VOYAGE - There were no portholes or electric fans | 25 |
| IV. | SEIZURE - "Now therefore I, John Quincy Adams, President" | 30 |
| V. | THE FIRST YEARS TOGETHER - "We are destitute of provisions" | 39 |
| VI. | THE MOVE TO THE WEST - "...and in his dream he saw...fields of waving grain" | 62 |
| VII. | PIONEERING THE NEW LAND - "The wolves damage the sweet pumpkins" | 75 |
| VIII. | NEWCOMERS, HEALTH, AND RELIGION - "I will not have anything to do with the Consel, for he is a Swede" | 86 |
| IX. | THE MORMONS COME TO FOX RIVER - "The confusion here is terrible" | 100 |
| X. | CLIMAX OF AN ERA - Exciting rumors reached Fox River" | 120 |
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PART II: ANCESTRY AND POSTERITY (After 1850) |
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| Norwegian Ancestors | 139 | |
| XI. | BJORLAND (THOSTENSON) - The U.S. Marshall gets his man | 142 |
| XII. | BRASTAD (THOMPSON) - "I would rather have an original kiss" | 157 |
| XIII. | DAHL (ANDERSON) - "Luck was on my side for the gun did not go off" | 175 |
| XIV. | EIDE (O. JOHNSON) - Which telleth of ye shipwreck and the romance that followed | 210 |
| XV. | HERSDAL (NELSON) - "Had it not been for this pole, all thirteen of us would have frozen to death" | 225 |
| XVI. | HERVIK (HARWICK) - One family stayed in the "Black North" and made good | 347 |
| XVII. | HESJA (G. JOHNSON) - "A pall of darkness hung over the territory by reason of Apache atrocities" | 351 |
| XVIII. | HETLETVEIT ( OLSON) - "The gunman then fanned both guns both ways and backed out" | 368 |
| XIX. | JEILANE (LARSON) - "And he set a strik-out record of twenty-three men in nine innings" | 389 |
| XX. | MADLAND and HAUKAAS (HOUGAS) [& SLOGVIK] - "The oxen got sour feet and refused to travel. Indians attacked" | 408 |
| XXI. | REVHEIM (IVERSON) - "The hanging was apparently a mistake ..." | 474 |
| XXII. | ROSSEDAL (ROSDAIL) - "How dear to my heart ..." | 486 |
| XXIII. | STEINE (STEEN) - "Schive was noted for his power over the evil one..." | 544 |
| XXIV. | ASSOCIATE SLOOPERS ( C. PEERSON, K. EIDE, MELAND, STRANGELAND, K. SLOGVIK, J. EIDE - Now Inger Asfjørnsdatter had two suitors ... | 558 |
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APPENDIX: The Original Sloopers Iver Halversen Revem's Letter to the King Slooper Relics The Slooper Society Slooper Photos -- 4th to 8th Generation |
605 608 610 613 617 |
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INDEXES: Family Index General Index |
629 659 |
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