The Follinglo dog book
Subtitle: a Norwegian pioneer story from Iowa
By: by Peder Gustav Tjernagel ; foreword by Wayne Franklin ; prologue & epilogue by Peter Tjernagel Harstad.
Series: The American land & life series; American land and life series.
Publisher: University of Iowa Press
Published: 1999
Place of publication: Iowa City
Language: eng
Number of pages: 172
Subjects: Tjernagel, Peder Gustav, 1864-1932 -- Childhood and youth.; Tjernagel, Peder Gustav, 1864-1932 -- Family.; Pioneers -- Iowa -- Scott Township (Hamilton County) -- Biography.; Norwegian Americans -- Iowa -- Scott Township (Hamilton County) -- Biography.; Dogs -- Iowa -- Scott Township (Hamilton County); Farm life -- Iowa -- Scott Township (Hamilton County); Frontier and pioneer life -- Iowa -- Scott Township (Hamilton County)
Genres: Biography.
Description: The Follinglo Dog Book both is and is not about dogs. The dogs are certainly here: from Milla to Chip the Third, we encounter a procession of heroic if often unfortunate creatures who, along with their immigrant masters, led a hard life on the nineteenth-century American frontier. However, if you pick up this book thinking it will offer a heartwarming read about canine experiences, you will find yourself reinformed by the way it unfolds.

Arriving in Iowa in what was still the age of wooden equipment and animal power, the Tjernagels witnessed each successive revolution on the land. They built homes and barns, cultivated the land, and encountered every manner of natural disaster from prairie fires to blizzards. And, of course, there are the dogs who shepherd, protect, and even baby-sit the residents of Follinglo Farm.

Peder Gustav Tjernagel (1864-1932) recorded these stories in pencil on a school notepad in 1909. The manuscript was later edited by relatives who self-published the book as a family record. In his foreword to The Follinglo Dog Book, Wayne Franklin, professor of English at Northeastern University, places the book in its historical context and addresses our changing attitudes toward the humane treatment of house pets since the nineteenth century.