''Unto a Good Land'' () 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 was also published in other languages. Together with the first novel, it was adapted as a film ''The Emigrants'' (1971), directed by

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. A sequel based on the third and fourth novels was released in 1972.

Plot

The novel describes the journey of the Swedish Nilsson family (from ''The Emigrants'') from

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, where they had landed, to

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. With homesteading land available, they settle at Lake Ki-Chi-Saga (now Lake Chisago), Minnesota Territory. (Today, the area is Chisago County,

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.) There, the Nilssons started building a dwelling and structures for a farm. Robert, Karl-Oskar's younger brother, takes off for

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with his friend Arvid to join the search for gold to join the

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. 1952 novels Novels by Vilhelm Moberg Swedish-language novels Novels about immigration to the United States Works about Swedish-American culture The Emigrants (novel series) {{1950s-hist-novel-stub