[journey stories section]
Immigrants arrive at Ellis Island for processing after journeying across the Atlantic Ocean. George Grantham Bain Collection, Library of Congress
The Long Journey to Dakota Territory:
By Jerry Tweton
They came by the thousands to North Dakota from Scandinavia, the Low Countries, the British Isles, Central Europe, European Russia, and even the Near East. The individual reasons for leaving their homelands to journey to America varied, but the desire for a better life in a new land unified those thousands of immigrants in a powerful way.
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