Giants in the Earth: A Saga of the Prairie (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from Giants in the Earth: A Saga of the Prairie<br><br>I am aware of the slight Similarity existing between Johan Bojer''s The Emigrants and certain portions of the First Book of my novel; and lest the reader should consider me guilty Of having plagiarized him I find it necessary to Ofi''er the information that The land-taking was in the hands of the Norwegian book dealers a little better than one month before Bojer''s book appeared. In a letter to me dated January 11 1925 Mr. Bojer writes: It certainly was fortunate for me that I got my book finished when I did. Had it appeared much later I should have been ac cused of having plagiarized you.<br><br>About the Publisher<br><br>Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com<br><br>This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases an imperfection in the original such as a blemish or missing page may be replicated in our edition. We do however repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.