During a time of two world wars and a sluggish world economy, many Northern Europeans left their homelands to build the American and Canadian West with dreams of abundance and new life. Spanning a period from the late 1800s to the mid-1900s, To Be a Cowboy: Oliver Christensen's Story recounts the dreams and realities of a father and a son.
Otto Christensen came to North America in the early 1900s as an indentured farm worker from Denmark with a dream of becoming a successful farmer in Alberta. His son, Oliver, grew up on his father's farm during the Dirty Thirties and soon realized...
During a time of two world wars and a sluggish world economy, many Northern Europeans left their homelands to build the American and Canadian West wit...
