A rushing river in the Absaroka-Beartooth WIlderness, Montana. Along the river grow red clover, bluebells and daisies, like the immigrants knew from Norway.

Time to tell the story of early Norwegian immigrants in Montana

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It is high time to tell the story of early Norwegian immigration to Montana. In his excellent book from 1958, Kenneth Bjork, West of the Great Divide. Norwegian Migration to the Pacific Coast, 1847-1893, wrote that important research themes such as the “movement of immigrants from region to region in the New World have been […]

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