University of Iowa Press Follinglo Dog Book Tjernagel PB Illus SIGNED

by Peder Gustav Tjernagel

$45 · Offered by eBay

First edition · Signed

The Follinglo Dog Book: A Norwegian Pioneer Story from Iowa Peder Gustav Tjernagel. Foreword by Wayne Franklin; prologue and epilogue by Peter Tjernagel Harstad (University of Iowa Press, American Land & Life Series, 1999). Trade paperback. Signed by Peter Tjernagel Harstad. Signed on the title page by Peter Tjernagel Harstad, the author’s grandson and former director of the Indiana Historical Society. The stories of a Norwegian immigrant family that settled Follinglo Farm in Scott Township, Hamilton County, Iowa, in 1860. Tjernagel (1864–1932) wrote them in pencil on a school notepad in 1909: boyhood pranks, frontier hardship, and the family’s procession of heroic and often unlucky dogs, from Milla to Chip the Third. Illustrated with wood engravings throughout. Condition: Very good. Clean covers with light shelf wear. Tight binding, clean text, no markings other than the signature. Please see all photos. Ships USPS Media Mail.

• Publisher: University of Iowa Press
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: Very Good

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