O Pioneers! tells the story of the Bergsons, a family of Swedish-American immigrants in the farm country near the fictional town of Hanover, Nebraska, at the turn of the 20th century. I highly recommend this book."There are only two or three human stories, and they go on repeating.
It's a wonderful and realistic portrayal of colonial life in the untamed American prairie. This is a story about the strength of the human race about love and loss and about great tragedy. She does this at great sacrifice to her own personal life. Alexandra faces this challenge head-on, and she increases her landholdings, and ensures that her family are much better off than when she began. He recognizes that she is the most capable of the lot. Hard work is definitely not foreign to these people and Alexandra and her family (mother, father, three brothers, and Alexandra herself), Alexandra's father is taken from the family at a fairly young age, but he leaves a sizeable homestead and a house for his family, and he entrusts his daughter to look after it all. This particular settlement is Hanover, Nebraska, and the book is about the Bergstrom family who were immigrants from Sweden. At that time, a large number of immigrants had made their way to the United States and they came because they knew that land was being offered for free to settlers. This book was written in 1913, but it is set in 19th century Nebraska. This edition includes a biographical afterword. “O Pioneers!” is a classic portrayal of the struggles of immigrants in the great plains of America, a story of success in the face of hardship, and the growth of a young woman along the way.
Amidst the backdrop of managing the farm there develops two romantic relationships in the novel, one between Alexandra and her childhood friend Carl Linstrum, who returns after many years away, and another between Alexandra’s youngest brother, Emil, and the unhappily married Marie Shabata. Instead Alexandra convinces the family to mortgage their homestead in order to buy up the surrounding acreage. Many years of crop failures force the Bergson’s neighbors to give up and sell their farms, something that Alexandra’s brothers Oscar and Lou wish to do but which Alexandra and her mother are unwilling to do. The story centers on the life of Alexandra Bergson, who inherits the family farm with her mother and three brothers when her father dies. Followed by “The Song of the Lark” in 1915 and “My Ántonia” in 1918, “O Pioneers!” introduces us to the Bergsons, a family of Swedish-American immigrants who live in the fictional farm town of Hanover, Nebraska at the beginning of the 20th century. First published in 1913, “O Pioneers!” is the first novel in Willa Cather’s “Great Plains” trilogy.
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