Vilhelm Moberg, one of Sweden's greatest writers of the twentieth century, created Karl Oskar and Kristina Nilsson to portray the joys and tragedies of daily life for early Swedish pioneers in America. Their story begins with their journey from Smaland to America in 1850 and follows them as they struggle to make a new home in the Minnesota Territory. This is book four of a series of four. Paperback, 230 pp.