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 Lur
Publications is the publishing arm of The Danish
American Archive and Library. Taking its name from the
graceful Bronze Age horns found in Scandinavian museums,
Lur Publications offers books from the Danish
experience in Denmark, America and throughout the world.
Below is a comprehensive list of publications available
through Lur Publications. To find out more or to
order books, please contact the Danish American Archive
and Library by e-mail at daaljill@gmail.com
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Books available through
Lur Publications include:
 Peter
S. Petersen's Memoirs
By Peter S. Petersen
Eds. John W. Nielsen and Karsten Michaelsen
ISBN: 0-930697-14-6
$27.50
248 pages
These memoirs are valuable for their depiction of
life in Nebraska and Wyoming in the 1870s and 1880s. Not
only are the usual pioneer hardships described, but one
also reads of the founding of villages, churches and
schools and Petersen's experiences as a farmhand, a
general store employee, a railroad worker and a rancher.
The narrator continually returns to Dannebrog, Nebraska.
 Attracted
to America
Ed. Ivan E. Nielsen
ISBN: 0-930697-13-8
$19.95
164 pages
The thirty-five vignettes by various Danish
immigrants and their descendants that comprise this book
span a century and range over much of the United States
and Canada and include early experiences in Denmark. The
vignettes describe rural and urban life as well as
personal encounters with blizzards and drought, the San
Francisco earthquake and the Great Depression as these
immigrants assimilate and become Americans.
Our Last Frontiers: A World Cruise Diary
By Borge and Lotte Christensen
Eds. John W. Nielsen and Dorothy Wright
ISBN: 0-930697-08-1
$22.50
238 pages
Offers a journey to six continents as the reader
travels with the authors on a world cruise. These
intrepid Danish immigrants overcome what could be
disconcerting personal obstacles caused by a leg injury
and the loss of a tooth, to respond enthusiastically to
each unfolding experience involving people and animals,
nature and culture. Borge's meticulous recording of
position, temperature and speed adds special
authenticity to the work.
Under the Cloud: Dagmar Vasby's Memoirs
By Dagmar Vasby with Charlene Luchterhand
Ed. John W. Nielsen
ISBN: 0-930697-09-x
$14.95
142 pages
This is both an account of courage and faith as
Dagmar Vasby serves as a medical missionary in China and
Liberia and a tribute to her parents, Niels Christian
and Laura Petersen, who served Lutheran parishes in the
United States and Denmark. God's guiding cloud leads
Dagmar across Stalinist Russia to Chinese Manchuria
where she experiences the Japanese occupation, the
ravages of WW II and the subsequent Soviet incursion.
Danes in America: Danish-American Lutheranism
from 1860-1908
By Peder Kjolhede, P.S. Vig, and I.M. Hansen
Ed. John W. Nielsen
Translated: Edward A. Hansen and Inga Larsen
ISBN: 0-930697-10-3
$22.50
186 pages
This book is the first in a projected multi-volume
translation of the 1906, 1916 two-volume work entitled
Danske I Amerika. As the title suggests, this book
covers the early efforts at establishing a Danish Church
in America. Eventually differences of religious emphases
outweighed Danish heritage, resulting in two different
churches. Scholars have long used the original work as a
major source of information.
Danes in America: Kansas and Nebraska
By Julius Johnsen and others
Ed. John W. Nielsen
Translated: Ninna Engskow
ISBN: 0-930697-12-x
$16.50
156 pages
This second book, drawn from the previously
untranslated Danske I Amerika, deals with early Danish
settlements in Kansas and Nebraska. Here one reads of
blizzards, droughts, prairie fires, grasshopper plagues
and much more in a people's attempt to establish new
lives. Gradually the open prairie is transformed into
something far more familiar.
Inside the Fighting First:
Papers of a Nebraska Private in the Philippine War
(1898-1899)
Ed. Thomas Solevad Nielsen
Introduction and Commentary: Matthew Plowman
Translated: Trine Feuerborn
ISBN: 0-930697-11-1
$19.95
188 pages
This book consists of the diary of Henry Thompson,
the letters he wrote home and a selection of those that
he received as the Spanish American War wound down and
the Philippine War revved up. Thompson, the son of
Danish immigrants living near St. Edwards, Nebraska,
wrote in English; his parents' letters (translated) were
written in Danish. The book reveals the changing
mentality of a soldier as combat intensifies.
 A
Frame But No Picture: the Story of a Boy Left in Denmark
Ed. John W. Nielsen
Translated: Dorte Starmose and Ninna Engskow
ISBN: 0-930697-03-0
$8.50
63 pages
These letters provide a poignant account of a Danish
family who left their youngest child behind when they
emigrated from Denmark. Much is revealed about everyday
life in both Denmark and the United States even as the
reader, and undoubtedly the parents, longs for more
information about Adolf, the little boy left behind.
Pauline and Panno: Immigrant Lives Intertwined
By Fred Baltz
ISBN: 0-930-697-16-2
$9.95
78 pages
This is an account of two immigrants-one from
Denmark, the other from Greece. Both come to
Chicago-Pauline from her rural Nebraska and Minnesota
background, Peter directly from his native Greece. There
they marry and struggle to survive during the Great
Depression and WW II.
Elna: A Danish Blossom in Urban Blight
By Harold E. Olsen
Ed. John W. Nielsen
ISBN: 0-930697-15-4
$18.50
170 pages
Abandoned by her handsome husband, Elna is left to
rear her two small children during the dark days of the
1930s. The book conveys vivid insight into urban life as
this young immigrant survives through hard work,
creative efforts allowed by her Jewish landlord, and the
constant support of her Danish church and lodge.
 Boats
in the Night: Knud Dyby's Recollections of Resistance
and Rescue
By Martha Loeffler
Ed. John Mark Nielsen
ISBN: 0-930697-07-5
$14.95
140 pages
This stirring account tells of Danish resistance to
German occupation and of the rescue of Danish Jews
during WW II as told to Martha Loeffler by Knud Dyby,
one of the participants. Dyby, who now lives in
California, has been recognized by numerous Jewish
groups for his courage and involvement.
Passages From India: Letters, Essays and Poems
By Norman C. Bansen
Ed. John W. Nielsen
ISBN: 0-930697-05-7
$19.95
220 pages
The letters of an American officer serving in the
China-Burma-India theater of WW II provide a perceptive
insight into Indian life and culture as well as a vivid
account of Danish colonial settlements in India. Bansen,
a former Professors of English at Dana College, includes
a number of his early wartime poems.
 Embracing
Two Worlds: The Thorvald Muller Family of Kimballton
Eds. Barbara Lund Jones and John W. Nielsen
ISBN: 0-930697-04-9
$14.95
190 pages
The experiences of the Muller family and the
Kimballton community emerge out of the recollections of
a variety of individuals. Some are members of the Muller
family, some are current or former residents of
Kimballton, and some are scholars interested in how a
community preserves and projects its identity.
 Tante
Johanne: Letters of a Danish Immigrant Family 1887-1910
Ed. John W. Nielsen
ISBN: 0-930697-01-4
$12.95
120 pages
Correspondence involving a spiritually and culturally
uprooted Danish immigrant woman of the nineteenth
century provides and insight into how difficult it was
for her to see her family become Americanized. The book
is an interesting account of rural Iowa life.
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