Complete with pictures, graphs, and maps, this book focuses on the ethnicity of the peoples who make up the countryside of southwestern Minnesota and have created its history. Two counties, Royal and Hope, have "taught us a great deal about the Poles and the Danes of southwestern Minnesota and, at the same time, provided provocative insights into the ethnic settling and development of the agricultural frontier itself." This book demonstrates how the Poles and Danes were able to adjust to their new surroundings throughout the decades without losing their old ways of life.