Scope and Contents Experiences on the North Dakota and Minnesota prairies; work experiences in Minneapolis; involvement with farmer cooperatives; farmer resistance around Montevideo during the Depression; March on the state capitol in 1933; discussion of Floyd Olson, John Bosch, Harry Haugland, Franklin D. Roosevelt. Axel Mattson was born March 29, 1886, in Cokato, Wright County, where he lived for twenty years. After teaching country school for two years in North Dakota, he moved to Minneapolis and held...