Title: Cutbank Girl
Author: Erling Nicolai Rolfsrud
Publisher: Lantern Books
Publication Date: 1985
Type: Paperback
Condition: Good +
Jacket condition: None as issued
Edition: First Edition
Notes: Clean, solid copy with no writing, highlighting, marks, or creased page corners. Cover has light handling bends and a partial crease on top front corner. Minimal edge wear. Single faint spine crease; binding is firm and square. Nice copy for personal use. Stated First printing.
About the Book
Cutbank Girl takes a fictional Alexandria, Minnesota famiy to western North Dakota in 1908 to a homestead they inherit. Here the Millers who speak only English find themselves in a settlement of immigrant homesteaders who speak only Norwegian. The Millers learn more from the Norskies than just "Uff da!"
From electric lights to kerosene lamps and lanterns, from buggies and horseless carriages to riding on a stoneboat, the Millers make man changes in life style on the prairie. Young Sara meets her greatest challenges in a sodhouse school where she is the only pupil who can read and write English.
