Who would ever think a Russian peasant emigrant of the late 1800s would one day become a beacon for literacy in America? But that is the story of Christina Hillius, a German/Russian who settled in Dakota Territory and whose life demonstrates the challenges and triumphs of thousands of European women who made a new life in a new country. Christina Netz Hillius was 26 in 1887 when she spent 10 days on a ship from Russia to New York with her husband John and their three-year-old daughter Bertha.
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