[129] The prairie takes its name from Koshkonong Creek (and Koshkonong Lake).
[130] As Mr. Odland points out. Odland adds: “They were all Vossings and to emigrants from that celebrated district in Norway, therefore, belongs the credit of founding the most important Norwegian settlement in America.” (Article in Amerika).
[131] Their names are recorded in the land office as Nils Seaverson, Nils Larson and Magany Buttelson.
[132] Odland writes: when they had finished their work outside, they were obliged to lie down on their beds and cover up with robes in order not to freeze.
[133] Himle settled some years later at Norway Grove, Dane County.
[134] Anderson’s First Chapter, page 338.
[135] He was killed by a loaded wagon tipping over him.
[136] For these facts I acknowledge indebtedness chiefly to Prof. R. B. Anderson, who is a son of Björn Anderson Kvelve; he gives an account of the journey of these men on pages 347–354 of his book, and a sketch of his parents pages 155–165; see also page 171, and 245.
[137] Then a little river; now it is almost dried out.
[138] So the description reads but the Amund Anderson homestead is the east half of the northwest quarter, and the Kvelve homestead is directly south.