Map showing the route Cleng Peerson took when looking for better land for the Norwegian immigrants to Western New York.

A new beginning farther west

Cleng Peerson og tidlig emigrasjon, Migrasjonskjede Cleng Peerson / By

The first Norwegians in western New York worked hard for several seasons to grow enough food for their families to last through the long and cold winters. Their new home in America was no Canaan’s Land. Could there be a new beginning farther west? When the ice broke up on Lake Erie and Lake Michigan […]

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