The Will to Succeed. Stories of Swedish Pioneers. A collection of stories chosen from a group which were entered in a contest on the subject of: ‘The influence of Swedish Settlers on a Community or Region’, sponsored by the Swedish American Line in commemoration of the Swedish Pioneer Centennial of 1948.

Innehåll: Leather Hinges; Sven M. Swenson, the first Swede in Texas; The Influence of Swedish Settlers on Vasa, Minnesota; Man of the Prairie; Lindsborg’s Messiah; Bengt Magnus Haland and the Halland Settlement; T.N. Hasselquist, Minister, Educator, Pioneer; Ola Nilsson Liljenquist and his Co-operative City; The Little Dutch Baker; A Noble Experiment; And so our Lord Created the Smålander; The Importance of John Nilsson’s Sons & Daughters to the Blue Valley; President John Hanson, Father of American Unity; John Albert Johnson, Three Times Governor of Minnesota; John Ericsson; Dahlgren of the American Navy; Woman at work; Captain William Matson - a Modern Viking; Ernest B. Larsson and Unalakleet; The Life of William W. Keen; Swedish Kanaka; The Story of Anna Ernberg; A.N. Pierson, The Rose King; A Questing Norseman; Ernst F.W. Alexanderson, Inventor Extraordinary; Carl Sandburg - His Influence on American Culture; Granite in His Bread; Carl Milles at Cranbrook; Great-Hearted Genius; Gotham’s Guardian of Law and Order.