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O pioneers book7/4/2023 ![]() Though John has three sons-Oscar, Lou, and Emil-Alexandra is imaginative, hardworking, and business-savvy. John dies early in life, leaving his farm to his daughter, Alexandra. The father of the household, John, believes that land ownership is the ultimate freedom and works for years to get his family out of debt while other families fail and move on. The Bergsons are a family of immigrants who live and farm in Hanover. Hanover is isolated from society, and the difficult natural environment breaks many would-be homesteaders-especially those who lack farming experience. As a state, Nebraska is only beginning to be settled and developed. ![]() ![]() Hanover is a small rural community in Nebraska in the mid-to-late 1880s. All page numbers in this guide refer to the public domain edition of the novel available through Kindle. It continues to be widely read in schools and is considered to be one of the great novels of American literature. ![]() O Pioneers! was adapted into a film in 1992. O Pioneers! draws its title from Walt Whitman’s 1865 poem “Pioneers! O Pioneers!”-an ode to American westward expansion. ![]()
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