![]() ![]() The oldest daughter Ántonia also comes running up to him, grabs his hand, and they go sprinting into the fields. Shimerda, a shrewish woman who is complaining and demanding the oldest son Ambrosch, who is a stubborn, stingy brute Marek, a mentally challenged boy and Yulka, a young and pretty girl. Shimerda, an educated musician who is very kindly Mrs. Soon the Burdens go to meet their Bohemian neighbors, the Shimerdas, who were forced to pay too much for their farm by the only other Bohemian man in the country, Peter Krajiek. At this point in the year it is still summer. Jim enjoys the wide expanses of the frontier, with all its insects, prairie dogs, and vegetation. ![]() Jim's grandparents are kindly people with simple religious beliefs and very generous natures. When Jim arrives at the station, he is greeted by Otto Fuchs, an Austrian desperado cowboy. ![]() On the same train is a Bohemian family that barely speaks English and that is going to the same place. He has just recently lost both his parents, and he is accompanied by a farmhand named Jake. At the age of ten, Jim Burden travels by cross-country train to live with his grandparents on the Nebraska frontier. ![]()
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