(Per Hansa)Peter Hanson's wife slowly goes insane surrounded by a sea of grass, a plague of grass hoppers, blizzards. Indians have a meeting on "their claim" after Peter pulls up wooden stakes (jumps an Irishman's prior claim). In the middle of a blizzard, Peter goes several miles west to the Irish settlement for a doctor for his neighbor from the same town in Norway. Next spring peter is found sitting next to a hay bale with "a thousand yard stare". The Norwegian settlement disappears within 10 years or moves on...