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Vilhelm Moberg was one of the foremost Swedish authors of the 20th century. His most famous characters, Karl Oskar and Kristina Nilsson, represented more than 1.2 million Swedish emigrants who landed on American shores between 1846 and 1930. During the summer of 1948, he stayed in Chisago City and explored the area by bicycle. That research helped shape his most famous work, the epic tetralogy "The Emigrants," "Unto a Good Land," "The Settlers," and "The Last Letter Home." In Sweden, thanks to Moberg's literary works, this land of Kichi-Saga, the Chisago Lakes Area, is probably the best-known area of the United States.
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Chisago City, Minnesota · United States
