The White Cross in the Woods
And other Norwegian immigrant stories
(Skyldfolk og Andre)
Waldemar Theodor Ager (1938)
Translated by Hildur Ager Nicolai (1982)
Franklin Printing and Publishing

This slim volume is dedicated to Hildur Nicolai, Ager's eighth child, and contains:

1. The White Cross in the Woods
2. There Was a Way at Last
3. Road to Happiness
4. Undesirable
5. Mussels for Sale
6. Christmas Dream that Burst
7. It Could Happen
8. Inheritance

In addition, the translator adds "Glimpses Into My Grandfather's Scrapbook," by Ager granddaughter Barbara Bergh Culver, a biographical sketch of Ager as well as a family tree, a translation of Ager's temperance poem "Father Joseph," a lyrical account of Ager's final illness and death and thirty family photos.

“I have never read a book where so many people get their hides tanned.”—E. E. Løbeck

“You have precisely the qualifications for describing Norwegian-American cultural life.”—Ole Edvart Rølvaag

"It is safe to say that the book not only launched Ager on a career of literary importance, but also confirmed him in his dream of a Norwegian-American literature, to which he himself had offered the best and most effective testimony.”—Einar Haugen, in Immigrant Idealist