Ole Amundsen Buslett

Ole Amundsen Buslett (May 28, 1855 – June 5, 1924) was a Norwegian-born American author, newspaperman, and politician.

Ole Amundsen Buslett
Member of the Wisconsin State Assembly
In office
1908–1910
ConstituencyWaupaca County Second District
Personal details
Born(1855-05-28)May 28, 1855
Gausdal, Norway
DiedJune 5, 1924(1924-06-05) (aged 69)
Northland, Waupaca County, Wisconsin
Political partyRepublican
OccupationWriter, politician

Background

Ole Amundsen Buslett was born in Gausdal, Oppland, Norway. Buslett was the oldest of eight children born to Amund Halvorsen Buslett and Netta (Kalstad) Ringsrud. He migrated to the United States with his family in 1868 and settled in the town of Iola, in Waupaca County, Wisconsin.

Career

In 1888, Buslett opened a country store and post office in Northland, Wisconsin. He served as postmaster, justice of the peace, and town clerk. In 1893, he became editor and part owner of Varden then later served as editor of Folkevennen. Both publications were Norwegian-language newspapers published in La Crosse, Wisconsin. In August 1894, he became editor of Normannen in Stoughton, Wisconsin. In March 1896, the publication was sold to Chicago-based Amerika. He held political offices in Waupaca County and was a member of the Wisconsin State Assembly from 1909 until 1910.[1]

Buslett wrote in the Norwegian language. His writings included novels, stories, poems, and plays. His works primarily portrayed the lives of Norwegian immigrants in Wisconsin. He also wrote a history of the 15th Wisconsin Volunteer Regiment. Det Femtende Regiment Wisconsin Frivillige was published in 1894. It was translated into English and published as The Fifteenth Wisconsin during 1999.[2][3]

He died at his home in Northland on June 5, 1924.[4]

Selected works
  • Fram (1882)
  • Leilighets digte (1882)
  • Skaars skjæbne (1882)
  • Øistein og Nora (1884)
  • De to veivisere, et dramatisk digt i seks handlinger (1885)
  • Snip-Snap-Snude (1889)
  • Et dødens døgn, sørgespill (1890)
  • Rolf Hagen ( 1893)
  • Torstein i nybygden (1897)
  • Sagastolen, fortælling fra det norske Amerika (1908)
  • I Parnassets lunde (1911)
  • Amerika-Paul (1913)
  • Veien til Golden Gate (1915)
  • Benediktus og Jacobus (1920)
gollark: - They may be working on them, but they initially claimed that they weren't necessary and they don't exist now. Also, I don't trust them to not do them wrong.- Ooookay then- Well, generics, for one: they *kind of exist* in that you can have generic maps, channels, slices, and arrays, but not anything else. Also this (https://fasterthanli.me/blog/2020/i-want-off-mr-golangs-wild-ride/), which is mostly about the file handling not being good since it tries to map on concepts which don't fit. Also channels having weird special syntax. Also `for` and `range` and `new` and `make` basically just being magic stuff which do whatever the compiler writers wanted with no consistency- see above- Because there's no generic number/comparable thing type. You would need to use `interface{}` or write a new function (with identical code) for every type you wanted to compare- You can change a signature somewhere and won't be alerted, but something else will break because the interface is no longer implemented- They are byte sequences. https://blog.golang.org/strings.- It's not. You need to put `if err != nil { return err }` everywhere.
gollark: Oh, and the error handling is terrible and it's kind of the type system's fault.
gollark: If I remember right Go strings are just byte sequences with no guarantee of being valid UTF-8, but all the functions working on them just assume they are.
gollark: Oh, and the strings are terrible.
gollark: Also, channels are not a particularly good primitive for synchronization.

References
  1. Buslett's Editorship of Normannen from 1894 to 1896 by Evelyn Nilsen. Norwegian-American Historical Association. Volume XII: Page 128
  2. Wisconsin Historical Society (Dictionary of Wisconsin History)
  3. Civil War Database Sources (Vesterheim Norwegian-American Museum)
  4. Assembly Journal. Wisconsin Legislature. 1925. p. 1082. Retrieved June 25, 2020 – via Google Books. Ole A. Buslett, a former member of the Wisconsin assembly, died at his home in the village of Northland, Waupaca county on June 5, 1924.

Primary sources
  • Øverland, Orm The Western Home : A Literary History of Norwegian America (Chapter 10, Ole Amundsen Buslett, Romantic Idealist. Norwegian American Historic Association. 1996)
  • Hustvedt, Lloyd Ole Amundsen Buslett, 1855-1924 (from "Makers of an American Immigrant Legacy: Essays in Honor of Kenneth O. Bjork", Odd S. Lovoll, editor, Norwegian-American Historical Association, 2001)
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