What a glorious new Scandinavia might not Minnesota become! … None of [the American states] appear to me to have a greater or more beautiful future before them than Minnesota.


Homes of the New World, 1853


What a glorious new Scandinavia might not Minnesota become! … None of [the American states] appear to me to have a greater or more beautiful future ...

What a glorious new Scandinavia might not Minnesota become! … None of [the American states] appear to me to have a greater or more beautiful future ...

What a glorious new Scandinavia might not Minnesota become! … None of [the American states] appear to me to have a greater or more beautiful future ...

What a glorious new Scandinavia might not Minnesota become! … None of [the American states] appear to me to have a greater or more beautiful future ...