Mailboxes and Old Barns

Between 1900 and 1910, many Danish families who had transitioned through Ellis Island to Wisconsin, Iowa, and Nebraska boarded the immigrant cars for one more ride with their children, their plows, their horses, their cow, and their trunks. Their final destination was the dry land prairie country in the northeastern corner of Montana—Roosevelt County, Sheridan County, and Richland County.

These essays document historical and family events, personalities, perspectives, and strong memories. T...