Author Gulbrand Hagen
Publisher: By Author, Crookston MN 1903 First Edition
179 pages, size approx. 8" by 5.5"

Gulbrand Torsteinson Hagen (March 20, 1865 – February 25, 1919) was an American newspaper editor, writer and photographer in Minnesota and North Dakota at the end of the 19th century and beginning of the 20th.

Some history below:

He edited and published the Norwegian-language "Vesterheimen" ("The Western Home") newspaper from 1894 to 1914 and wrote and published the novella "Per Kjolseth" in 1903. "Kjolseth" was a comic sequel to Allan Saetre's popular Norwegian-American novella "Marit in Chicago" (published originally 1882). In both books, Marit's husband Per was represented as a striver, eager (perhaps too eager) to be Americanized. The “Vesterheimen” was a reform-friendly weekly with most of the subscribers in northwestern in Minnesota. Hagen ceased writing and editing the Vesterheimen in 1914 when the English Only movement and the coming war created a chill on German and Scandinavian language use.

Very nice book. Blue cloth covers with only very minor spotting. Black design and lettering. Small No.166 calligraphy writing on inside endpaper. Only slight handling wear and shelf wear. Spotless interior, toned due to age.

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