Per Erik " Pete Brodine was the second son of Anders Anderson and Anna Andersdotter of Bro Sweden. He was as robust and active as all the rest. These Anderssons raised strong, healthy, boys. He also attended the little red one room school in Bro through sixth grade. At age thirteen he must have taken his place beside the men in the forest, felling tree, stripping them if their branches. The logs the Anderssons were processing were from land owned by the steel mill. The land on which their little homesite stood was also company land. That land is still in control of the same company today. It was hard work. The income derived was meager. The mill was owned by noblemen, who, along with the church and the King, controlled the lives of all the peasants.
He also became anxious to leave this endless drudgery. He, also, read eagerly if the wide open spaces of land to be had just for living on it and improving it. His mind absorbed every shred of information until he created a panorama of his future that expanded month by month and year by year.
He helped prepare Andrew and Fredrik for their journey. His heart ached to go with them. Three years later it was his tur. The Gothenburg Police Chamber list of emigrants shows that one Petter E Broden ( note that this Andersson has already changed his name) from Nora who was born on April 23, 1857 left on the SS Rolla for Hull, England on April 24, 1879, one day after his 22nd birthday. His destination was New York. Those were not cruise ships of the nineteenth century. You might have thought it so. Booking had to be made months in advance. There were many, many Swedes anxious to be freed from centuries of numbing drudgery. Turning his back on Bro and the Province of Westmanland he headed west to join his brothers.
Pete applied himself to the business of ranching. He saved his money, When Andrew went to Nebraska in 1881 Pete instructed Andrew to locate a parcel of land for him. Andrew did. An eighty acres just one and one half miles north of Andrew's place. Pete has enough money to pay for it. The deal was made. It was titled in Pete's name.
Pete continued to same his money. As he prepared to leave Nevada in the spring of 1886 to become a farmer in Nebraska, he gathered his money together to carry with him. That might have been all right. However, he apparently went to the tavern before his departure. In a rowdy night of celebrating, his tongue was loosened. Devious men learned how much money he was carrying. When he boarded the train so did the robbers. They over powered him, killed him, took his money and threw his body from the train.
Per Erik's dream and his life ended in violence along a lonely stretch of railroad in Nevada. He was twenty nine years old.
He also became anxious to leave this endless drudgery. He, also, read eagerly if the wide open spaces of land to be had just for living on it and improving it. His mind absorbed every shred of information until he created a panorama of his future that expanded month by month and year by year.
He helped prepare Andrew and Fredrik for their journey. His heart ached to go with them. Three years later it was his tur. The Gothenburg Police Chamber list of emigrants shows that one Petter E Broden ( note that this Andersson has already changed his name) from Nora who was born on April 23, 1857 left on the SS Rolla for Hull, England on April 24, 1879, one day after his 22nd birthday. His destination was New York. Those were not cruise ships of the nineteenth century. You might have thought it so. Booking had to be made months in advance. There were many, many Swedes anxious to be freed from centuries of numbing drudgery. Turning his back on Bro and the Province of Westmanland he headed west to join his brothers.
Pete applied himself to the business of ranching. He saved his money, When Andrew went to Nebraska in 1881 Pete instructed Andrew to locate a parcel of land for him. Andrew did. An eighty acres just one and one half miles north of Andrew's place. Pete has enough money to pay for it. The deal was made. It was titled in Pete's name.
Pete continued to same his money. As he prepared to leave Nevada in the spring of 1886 to become a farmer in Nebraska, he gathered his money together to carry with him. That might have been all right. However, he apparently went to the tavern before his departure. In a rowdy night of celebrating, his tongue was loosened. Devious men learned how much money he was carrying. When he boarded the train so did the robbers. They over powered him, killed him, took his money and threw his body from the train.
Per Erik's dream and his life ended in violence along a lonely stretch of railroad in Nevada. He was twenty nine years old.
Per Erik " Pete Brodine was the second son of Anders Anderson and Anna Andersdotter of Bro Sweden. He was as robust and active as all the rest. These Anderssons raised strong, healthy, boys. He also attended the little red one room school in Bro through sixth grade. At age thirteen he must have taken his place beside the men in the forest, felling tree, stripping them if their branches. The logs the Anderssons were processing were from land owned by the steel mill. The land on which their little homesite stood was also company land. That land is still in control of the same company today. It was hard work. The income derived was meager. The mill was owned by noblemen, who, along with the church and the King, controlled the lives of all the peasants.
He also became anxious to leave this endless drudgery. He, also, read eagerly if the wide open spaces of land to be had just for living on it and improving it. His mind absorbed every shred of information until he created a panorama of his future that expanded month by month and year by year.
He helped prepare Andrew and Fredrik for their journey. His heart ached to go with them. Three years later it was his tur. The Gothenburg Police Chamber list of emigrants shows that one Petter E Broden ( note that this Andersson has already changed his name) from Nora who was born on April 23, 1857 left on the SS Rolla for Hull, England on April 24, 1879, one day after his 22nd birthday. His destination was New York. Those were not cruise ships of the nineteenth century. You might have thought it so. Booking had to be made months in advance. There were many, many Swedes anxious to be freed from centuries of numbing drudgery. Turning his back on Bro and the Province of Westmanland he headed west to join his brothers.
Pete applied himself to the business of ranching. He saved his money, When Andrew went to Nebraska in 1881 Pete instructed Andrew to locate a parcel of land for him. Andrew did. An eighty acres just one and one half miles north of Andrew's place. Pete has enough money to pay for it. The deal was made. It was titled in Pete's name.
Pete continued to same his money. As he prepared to leave Nevada in the spring of 1886 to become a farmer in Nebraska, he gathered his money together to carry with him. That might have been all right. However, he apparently went to the tavern before his departure. In a rowdy night of celebrating, his tongue was loosened. Devious men learned how much money he was carrying. When he boarded the train so did the robbers. They over powered him, killed him, took his money and threw his body from the train.
Per Erik's dream and his life ended in violence along a lonely stretch of railroad in Nevada. He was twenty nine years old.
He also became anxious to leave this endless drudgery. He, also, read eagerly if the wide open spaces of land to be had just for living on it and improving it. His mind absorbed every shred of information until he created a panorama of his future that expanded month by month and year by year.
He helped prepare Andrew and Fredrik for their journey. His heart ached to go with them. Three years later it was his tur. The Gothenburg Police Chamber list of emigrants shows that one Petter E Broden ( note that this Andersson has already changed his name) from Nora who was born on April 23, 1857 left on the SS Rolla for Hull, England on April 24, 1879, one day after his 22nd birthday. His destination was New York. Those were not cruise ships of the nineteenth century. You might have thought it so. Booking had to be made months in advance. There were many, many Swedes anxious to be freed from centuries of numbing drudgery. Turning his back on Bro and the Province of Westmanland he headed west to join his brothers.
Pete applied himself to the business of ranching. He saved his money, When Andrew went to Nebraska in 1881 Pete instructed Andrew to locate a parcel of land for him. Andrew did. An eighty acres just one and one half miles north of Andrew's place. Pete has enough money to pay for it. The deal was made. It was titled in Pete's name.
Pete continued to same his money. As he prepared to leave Nevada in the spring of 1886 to become a farmer in Nebraska, he gathered his money together to carry with him. That might have been all right. However, he apparently went to the tavern before his departure. In a rowdy night of celebrating, his tongue was loosened. Devious men learned how much money he was carrying. When he boarded the train so did the robbers. They over powered him, killed him, took his money and threw his body from the train.
Per Erik's dream and his life ended in violence along a lonely stretch of railroad in Nevada. He was twenty nine years old.
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