Includes bibliographical references (pages 479-480) and index.
Contents:
Prologue: a place out of time -- Part 1. The Wortman legacy -- Dreaming of the past: circa 1790 -- To Nova Scotia: 1766 -- Wilderness and god: 1825-1837 -- Passing the torch: 1827-1836 -- Reverend Wortman: circa 1850 -- Sins of the fathers: 1854 -- War widow: 1867-1869 -- The flagship: 1884 -- A mother lost: 1904-1905 -- Tough country: 1910 -- A family of letters: 1911-1917 -- Last goodbye: 1918 -- The heist -- Part 2. The Godsey legacy -- Biddy: 1782 -- Fanny: 1843 -- Lottie: 1855 -- Saving mary: 1861-1900 -- Picture this! -- To be a wolf: 1903-1905 -- Addie: from a decade delivered, circa 1918 -- Packing the mail: 1918 -- Grand(ma's) field: 1919 -- A good team: 1920-1921 -- Building a future together: 1922-1927 -- Black Coulee school: 1928-1929 -- An essential gift: 1929 -- Friends and neighbors -- Come play with me: 1931 -- Summer follies: 1932 -- Play ball!: 1933 -- A brother lost: 1936 -- The making of a man: 1938 -- Dancing in the gumbo: Spring 1940 -- Mairzy doats: a little horse with a big heart -- Grab your partner-four hands crossed: 1946 -- Part 3. The Gilmore legacy -- From Scotland to Texas -- Letters from the dead: 1865 -- A southern exodus -- Choices -- No choices: 1892-1908 -- Annie May Gilmore -- A father lost: 1921 -- A storm threatens: 1925 -- Part 4. The Ness legacy -- A sea crossing: around 1890 -- Gunder Ness and Torbjar Kittilsson Bjorndal -- Yellow Medicine County, Minnesota: 1895 -- Ole Gunter Ness and Marion Christine Miller: 1891 -- Coming of age in hard times: 1914-1930 -- Annie's firstborn: 1931 -- The cabbage patch: about 1937 -- Wretched viking king: around 1940 -- The Badlands: 1940 -- Hope afloat: 1944 -- Grab your partner -- Allemande left -- And do-si-do: 1947 -- Now promenade -- Black Coulee baby: 1948 -- A good whist game -- A neighbor lends a hand: 1950-1952 -- Working out: 1953 -- Dream keeper -- Black Coulee baby two: 1954 -- Black Coulee baby three: 1957 -- A family tradition: 1959 -- Black Coulee baby four: 1961 -- Changing times: 1962-1965 -- Leaving home -- Epilogue -- Appendix: Leonidas Wortman.
Summary:
Multiple generations of four families, the Wortman, Godsey, Gilmore, and Ness families, trace their migration from the Atlantic seaboard to Montana.
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