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 Thorstein Bunde Veblen was the sixth child of Thomas Veblen and Kari Bunde, immigrant farmers from Valdres, Norway. In 1847, his parents arrived in Milwaukee holding three dollars between them. Fortunately, they had considerable inner resources. Kari had a brain that was “the fastest machine that God ever made,” according to her son Edward. She was endlessly resourceful in matters of home economics and had a knack for frontier medicine. In personality and build, Thomas reminded his eldest son, Andrew, of a mass of “unchiseled grey rock.” He was a physical dynamo, an eager adopter of the latest farming technology, and he built farmhouses that still stand today. The Veblens bought a series of farms in Wisconsin and Cycling and I Think to Myself What A Wonderful World Poster Minnesota, turning one uncultivated tract of land after another into agricultural abundance. Thirteen years after arriving in Milwaukee, they owned the second-richest farmstead in Wheeling Township, Minnesota.

It is hard to imagine a more clear-cut immigrant success story. They were a prosperous, self-sufficient family, exemplary American pioneers. Self-sufficient, however, is not the same thing as self-made, let alone self-interested. Federal policy made farmland cheap and abundant. After their arrival, more established Norwegian immigrants gave them money, lodging, and advice. Everyone on the pioneer farm, writes Camic, was “working for the benefit of the family as a collective unit, [so] it functioned in ways that deviated from the individualistic model of ‘the quintessential economic man.’” On the contrary, Norwegian-language newspapers constantly warned newcomers against bankers, lawyers, commodity speculators — anyone looking to skim a little cream off the top of the burgeoning agricultural economy without ever milking a cow.

Many parents not only put their children to work at home but also rented them out to neighboring farms. Not the Veblens. Instead, Thomas and Kari sent their children to a new American institution: the “common school.” On top of providing facts about history, geography, and natural science, Camic notes, the standard textbooks also “took every opportunity to decry idleness, waste, extravagant display, and ill-gotten acquisitions, and to contrast these derelictions with the cardinal virtues of honest labor, frugality, and self-denial.” Thorstein was immediately precocious. Andrew remembered him as “the most advanced pupil in the school, and I believe the teachers were closely enough put to it to keep ahead of him.”

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