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Dust off your bicycle, or muddy it up, however you prefer to hit the trail. Don Weinell, a long-distance bicyclist, biked the trail described in A Field Guide to Custer’s Camps: On the March to the Little Bighorn, keeping a log of his experiences and GPS locations, which inform this travel narrative. Weinell’s on-the-ground method of exploring history puts him in contact with the elements, the terrain, and the physical demands of cross-country travel. For readers not quite ready to don rain jackets, cold- and hot-weather wear, or snakebite kits, this field guide is the next best thing to following the trail in person.

Paperback/144pp/77 full color photos and maps

11-oz. capacity
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“You’re not to think you are anything special.”

Rule #1: Laws of Jante, the Unofficial Rules of Norway

Alt for One, One for Alt: A Devastating Saga of a North Dakota Farm Kid documents the 21,000 miles Jeffrey Karl Johnson traveled in ten weeks to ten Norwegian cities, all while haunted by both his ancestral Norwegian family and his North Dakotan birth family. Why did he dare travel to the Motherland? He was an earnest contestant on the highly rated, highly expensive, and highly campy reality TV show Alt for Norge, and there was nothing he wouldn’t do to win the big prize of meeting his Norwegian relatives for the first time. The true prize, he would discover, was bigger and more dangerous than expected: the journey itself. The path into his Norwegian heritage, and his slow crawl back, came with a cost—and a reward.

As the world feels increasingly chaotic, Jeffrey Karl Johnson became convinced that studying Norwegian culture offers unexpected insight into how societies survive—and recover from—deeply ingrained self-punishing systems of thought. Alt for One, One for Alt explores Norway, North Dakota, Minnesota, Johnson's family, and the ways individuals and cultures wrestle with inherited patterns of abuse and authoritarianism. Along the way, he became an unlikely contestant on the Norwegian reality show Alt for Norge—essentially, Survivor for Norwegian grandmothers—where Norwegian Americans compete for the chance to meet lost family in Norway. While he's no fan of reality TV, the show became a powerful lens for examining both Norwegian culture and his own family history.