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Tables of Contents for The Settlers
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Introduction to the Reprint Edition
xi
Introduction to the Settlers
xxiii
Bibliography for the Emigrant Novels
xxvii
Suggested Readings in English
xxix
Preface The Land They Changed
3
3
PART ONE Foundation for Growth
New Axes Ringing in the Forest
6
26
The Whore and the Thief
32
13
Planning and Planting
45
9
Guests in Their Own House
54
23
Man and Woman in the Territory
77
11
Starkodder the Ox
88
21
Ulrika in Her Glory
109
18
``That Baptist Ilk''
127
10
Hemlandet Comes to the Immigrants
137
9
Surveying the Forest
146
6
The Letter to Sweden
152
5
PART TWO Gold and Water
The March of the Hundred Thousand
157
3
A Youth Who is Not Young
160
16
But the Returned Gold Seeker Does Not Sleep
176
2
The First Night-Robert's Ear Speaks
178
11
While the Riches Lay Hidden in the House
189
9
The Second Night-Robert's Ear Speaks
198
15
The Missing Gold Seeker
213
12
The Third Night-Robert's Ear Speaks
225
14
Wildcats of Many Breeds
239
13
The Fourth Night-Robert's Ear Speaks
252
14
The Unget-at-Able
266
7
The Fifth Night-Robert's Ear Speaks
273
26
Wildcat Riches
299
11
A Stream That Runs Toward Greater Waters
310
11
PART THREE Blessed Woman
The Queen in the Kitchen
321
11
The Year Fifty-Seven
332
6
The Letter from Sweden
338
2
The Letter to Sweden
340
2
Karl Oskar's Followers
342
13
A Blessed Woman's Prayer
355
7
Partners of America
362
12
If God Doesn't Exist ...
374
9
Prayer Granted
383
9
To Reconcile Oneself with Fate
392
6
The Letter to Sweden
398