Landings-Laget I Amerika, Its First 75 Years

75th Anniversary Publication (1910-1985)

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Table of Contents

Introduction (page 2)

Dedication (page 3)

Norway Maps (page 4)

An Historical Review (page 5)

“Ei Lands Vise” (page 6)

“A Song for Land” (page 7)

A Brief Review of the Historical Background of Our Present-Day Bygdelags (page 8)

1. The Promise–and New Opportunity (page 8)

2. The Farewells–The Bonds (page 9)

3. The New Land–A Melting Pot? (page 11)

4. The Bygd Reunions–and How It All Started (page 11)

5. Bygdelagenes Fellesraad–The National Council of Norwegian-American Bygdelags (page 12)

6. Seventy-Five Years of Land’s Bygdelag in America (page 13)

The Trails of the Pioneers from Land with Waystations and Early Settlements (page 19)

Oppland Fylke (County) Map (page 20)

Land Map in Oppland Fylke (County) (page 21)

30,000 emigrated from Toten, Hadeland, and Land from 1839 onwards (page 22)

Landings-Bogen (Book of the Landings) (page 24)

Seventy-Five Years Young–How Landings-Laget Celebrates (page 27)

Stevnes and Officers of Landings-Laget (page 28)

First Officers of Landings-Laget (page 32)

H. A. M. Steen (1859-1935) (page 32)

Captain Torkild A. Rossing (1840-1923) (page 32)

Christian H. Beck (1854-1919) (page 33)

Peter S. Waslien (1857-1924) (page 33)

Lars Nielsen Røste (1799-1886) (page 34)

Seven Emigrants That Never were Accepted by the Lag Even Though Their Sponsor was a Charter Member (1926-19??) (page 35)

Bibliography (page 37)

A. General Reference (page 37)

B. Bygdelag History (page 37)

C. Land and Landings-Laget Resources (page 38)

D. Family Histories (page 39)

E. General Norwegian Genealogy Aids (page 39)