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Unto a Good Land

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Unto a Good Land
First edition
AuthorVilhelm Moberg
Original title'Invandrarna'
TranslatorGustaf Lannestock
LanguageSwedish
SeriesThe Emigrants
GenreHistorical novel
PublisherBonniers (Swedish edition)
Publication date
1952
Publication placeSweden
Published in English
1954
Media typePrint
Pages490 (Swedish edition)
ISBN0-87351-320-7
OCLC32346945
839.73/72 20
LC ClassPT9875.M5 I613 1995
Preceded byThe Emigrants 
Followed byThe Settlers 

Unto a Good Land (Swedish: Invandrarna, 1952) is a Swedish novel by Vilhelm Moberg. It is the second of his four-novel The Emigrants series.

It was translated into English in 1954, and also published in other languages. Together with the first novel, this was adapted as a film The Emigrants (1971), directed by Jan Troell. A sequel based on the third and fourth novels was released in 1972.

Plot

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This novel describes the journey of the Swedish Nilsson family (from The Emigrants) from New York City, New York, where they had landed, to Taylors Falls, Minnesota. With homesteading land available, they settle at the lake Ki-Chi-Saga (now Lake Chisago) in what was then Minnesota Territory. Today this area is Chisago County of the state of Minnesota.) There the Nilssons started building a dwelling and structures for a farm.

Robert, Karl-Oskar's younger brother, takes off for California with his friend Arvid to join the search for gold, as the Gold Rush is still on.