Artikler om norske immigranter til Montana og det samfunnet de ble en del av.
In July 2025 it will be 200 years since the first organized group of Norwegian immigrants left the city of Stavanger, Norway. Cleng Peerson was their pathfinder in western New York in 1825, and in Fox River, Illinois, in 1833. His last 15 years in Texas have been a mystery. Most Norwegian immigrants settled in […]
From 2023: First priority Texas, Montana, Alberta and Saskatchewan Les mer »
Some of the early Norwegian settlers in Montana came from the Rushford area in Fillmore County, Minnesota. Several people in Rushford organized a society with the aim of exploring for better land in Montana. Because of several years with crop failures caused by hail, bugs, and rust in Minnesota they began to dream about better
Step-by-step migration to Montana Les mer »
In the 1870s and into the 1880s the copper and pyrite mine at Vigsnæs in Avaldsnes on the west coast island of Karmøy was the largest mine in Norway. For more than a decade the newcomer, now known as Visnes or Vigsnes, on the North Sea surpassed the 300-year-old Royal silver mining establishment at Kongsberg
From the Vigsnes Copper Mine to the copper mines in Montana Les mer »
On May 25, 1866, the bark “Nicanor” left the town of Trondheim in Trøndelag, Norway. “Nicanor”, with a gross tonnage of 438, was built in Skellefteå in Sweden in 1857. When the ship set its course for Quebec in Canada, it had 233 steerage emigrants on board and five cabin passengers. Among the passengers were
Martin T. Grande: Sheep pioneer in Montana Les mer »
When the Civil War broke out in 1861 very little economic activity was conducted by people of European ancestry in Montana. Some Indian trade and missionary activity took place. Small agricultural settlements sold their surplus to homesteaders passing through the territory on their way to Oregon. After the gold discoveries became known in the early
Norwegian immigrants were drawn to the Montana gold fields Les mer »
Historical research on the Montana cattle industry is abundant; research on the Montana sheep industry during the same years is scant. A lot of attention has been “devoted to the trail from Texas, with its cowboys and longhorns.” Few knew about the great sheep trails from California and Oregon, argued Edward N. Wentworth in 1941.
Early Sheep Entrepreneurs in Montana Les mer »
Gold discoveries led to settlement in the area west of the Big Belt Mountains on the upper Missouri River, Montana. Late in fall 1864 four former Confederate soldiers traveled south from Fort Benton on the Missouri River. Their destination was the Last Chance Gulch in Helena, but they wandered into a gulch on the west
Confederate Gulch, Meagher County and the sheep business Les mer »
Det var fortsatt lett å skaffe seg billig jord etter 1900, men den beste jorda var ofte tatt. I 1907 emigrerte Torger N. Stråtveit (født 1863), hans kone Bergitte (født 1885) og datteren Borghild (født 1907) fra Skjold fra Stavanger den 19. april 1907. Familien oppga staten Montana som bestemmelsessted. Ifølge et manuskript i arkivet
Fra Skjold til Montana – familien Torger og Bergitte Stråtveit Les mer »
Tilbakevandring til Sauda og mange andre bygder økte rundt århundreskiftet. Etter hvert som dampskipene fikk sitt store gjennombrudd, falt prisen for atlanterhavsreiser betydelig, og reisen tok atskillig kortere tid. Immigranter som ikke fikk det helt til i det nye landet, vendte i større grad tilbake til Norge. Mange dro dessuten til USA for å tjene
Tilbakevandring til Sauda Les mer »
På gården Vinningland i Bjerkreim, gårdsnr. 2, bruksnr. 2, bodde Hans Pederson og Thomine Gemalia Halvorsdatter. De giftet seg 19. november 1873. Ekteparet fikk sju barn; de fire yngste jentene emigrerte til Montana, og i Montana giftet de seg med fire gutter fra Sauda.[1] Hansine ble født i Bjerkreim 2. juli 1883 og døde i
Fire søstre fra Bjerkreim giftet seg med fire saudagutter i Montana Les mer »