And then he met my grandmother, who was riding 20 miles twice a week each way to teach school at a rural schoolhouse. So fell in love with her. And then they were part of that era of home setting. So In the 1880s and 1900s, that's when North Dakota was really being settled by immigrants largely from Scandinavia and Germany. Right. And so they were, they fit into that thing. So they were, they were, you know, broke, hard scrabble pioneers living on 160 acre steak. (21:58–22:07)
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