The landscape they left, Byneset in Trøndelag in 2024, is still a green, rural landscape with privately owned small farms. There are no longer cotters' places on the farms, and there have been many mergers, creating more viable units.

Emigrants from Byneset, Trøndelag, ended up in Montana

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Before the Civil War, emigrants from Norway usually crossed the Atlantic on board a Norwegian sailing ship from a Norwegian harbor to New York or Quebec. This mode of transportation changed radically in the 1870s. Trans-Atlantic steamship companies from British ports offered faster journeys. A steamship crossed the Atlantic in less than half the time […]

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