Peter Olaf - Grabmeier, Richard H.
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America is a land of promise, filled with adventure and overflowing with riches, thought young Peter Olaf. So in 1895, at the age of seventeen, he left his family and girlfriend to board a ship for the new world.In the next ten years Peter mutated from a naive, young, Swedish immigrant, swinging an axe in a logging camp, to a man of wealth and prestige. Along the way he encountered and overcame fearsome challenges and tragedies and the deepest personal losses and betrayals. But he also built wonderfully strong friendships and family relationships. He experienced loves that were sometimes…mehr

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America is a land of promise, filled with adventure and overflowing with riches, thought young Peter Olaf. So in 1895, at the age of seventeen, he left his family and girlfriend to board a ship for the new world.In the next ten years Peter mutated from a naive, young, Swedish immigrant, swinging an axe in a logging camp, to a man of wealth and prestige. Along the way he encountered and overcame fearsome challenges and tragedies and the deepest personal losses and betrayals. But he also built wonderfully strong friendships and family relationships. He experienced loves that were sometimes intensely passionate, sometimes gentle or bittersweet, but only one would last a lifetime. Peter Olaf engages a rich blend of characters to carry Peters story from Sweden to Minnesota and back, and even to a Louisiana prison. The personalities are vivid and strong, from lumberjack to Indian healer, flirtatious bosss daughter to gentle half-breed girl, businessman mentor to formidable police inspector. Peter Olaf is an account of a young immigrants early life, but it is also a study of the hardy people who worked and loved in an earlier time of our nation.
Autorenporträt
Richard H. Grabmeier served as military instructor and technical writer with the rank of Staff Sergeant during service at Fort Belvoir, Virginia and in Saigon, Vietnam in the late 50's. In Saigon he served as a member of a four man MAAG (Military Assistance Advisory Group) team, composing and teaching heavy engineer equipment maintenance to Vietnamese troops.His civilian career as a technical writer and instructor, heavy equipment supervisor and equipment designer spanned thirty years. During this time he taught the construction of early computer memory systems, supervised crews of up to 40 people and controlled a million dollar budget. He then served as an insurance company president and published his first novel Peter Olaf in 2000 (see Amazon historical fiction. The book was rated as a strong, debut, historical novel by Kirkus Reviews. He has now written The Prophet and the Warrior (2019 and present) and Suddenly a Larger World.