By the Sweat of His Brow: The R. M. Probstfield Family at Oakport Farm Engelhardt Carroll
"If I had promised to be a priest and kept my word, today I would be . . . a feted-up, high-living hypocrite in the so-called vineyard of the Lord, and not a farmer . . . earning his bread by the…
Specifikacia By the Sweat of His Brow: The R. M. Probstfield Family at Oakport Farm Engelhardt Carroll
"If I had promised to be a priest and kept my word, today I would be . . . a feted-up, high-living hypocrite in the so-called vineyard of the Lord, and not a farmer . . . earning his bread by the sweat of his brow."Defying his Catholic parents' insistence that he join the clergy, twenty-year-old R. M. Probstfield emigrates from the Rhineland to Minnesota. After some continental rambling and the federal government forcing Native Americans from the Red River Valley, a decade toiling for the Hudson's Bay Company persuades him that the Valley's rich soil offers opportunity, and as one of the earliest settlers establishes Oakport Farm near the well-timbered Red River.Documented from a multi-generational journal and illustrated with vintage photographs, By the Sweat of His Brow sets the Probstfield family's daily activities in the context of state and national