Madison, WI: State Historical Society of Wisconsin, 1963. dj. Hardcover - Foreword by Merle Curti. The author of these memoirs was born in Norway, the son of a fisherman-farmer, and in 1909, at the age of 20, he emigrated to America - primarily because he could not get the education he sought in Norway. Includes information on living on a Norwegian fishing-farming island in the Arctic Circle and his early years as an immigrant in the rural Middle West, as well as life as a history professor. Index. 276 pp.