Unto a Good Land

Unto a Good Land

First edition
Author	Vilhelm Moberg
Original title	'Invandrarna'
Translator	Gustaf Lannestock
Language	Swedish
Series	The Emigrants
Genre	Historical novel
Publisher	Bonniers (Swedish edition)
Publication date	1952
Publication place	Sweden
Published in English	1954
Media type	Print
Pages	490 (Swedish edition)
ISBN	0-87351-320-7
OCLC	32346945
Dewey Decimal	839.73/72 20
LC Class	PT9875.M5 I613 1995
Preceded by	The Emigrants
Followed by	The Settlers

Unto a Good Land (Swedish : Invandrarna, 1952) is a Swedish novel by Vilhelm Moberg. ^[1] 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 Jan Troell. 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 New York City, New York, where they had landed, to Taylors Falls, Minnesota. With homesteading land available, they settle at Lake Ki-Chi-Saga (now Lake Chisago), Minnesota Territory. (Today, the area is Chisago County, Minnesota.) There, the Nilssons started building a dwelling and structures for a farm.

Robert, Karl-Oskar's younger brother, takes off for California with his friend Arvid to join the search for gold to join the Gold Rush.

1. Hass, Victor (August 1, 1954). "Into a Fertile Valley; UNTO A GOOD LAND. By Wilhelm Moberg. Translated from the Swedish by Gustaf Lannestock. 371 pp. New York: Simon & Schuster. $3.95". The New York Times. Retrieved November 1, 2025.