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    Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm

    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

Open Daily: 10am - 10pm | Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm
3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
612-822-4611
Red Ore Rising: The Journal of Otto Peltonen, a Finnish Immigrant Story

Red Ore Rising: The Journal of Otto Peltonen, a Finnish Immigrant Story

Durbin, William

Paperback

General Juvenile FictionHistory

Publisher Price: $9.95

ISBN10: 1517922046
ISBN13: 9781517922047
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
Published: Jan 27 2026
Pages: 176
Weight: 0.75
Height: 0.64 Width: 5.21 Depth: 7.49
Language: English

A portrait of the Finnish immigrant experience in Minnesota during the early twentieth century

After journeying across the Atlantic with his mother and two sisters, young Otto Peltonen joins his father in the iron ore mines of northern Minnesota, experiencing the harsh labor conditions that were common at the time, as mining companies cared more about making a profit than for their workers' safety. Writing in his journal about his family's struggles and the hard life Finnish immigrants endured in the early twentieth century, Otto ultimately strengthens his resolve to find the freedom his family had first sought in America.

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