[1] In 1876, Kristofer Janson's three-act drama, Amerikanske fantasier, was issued in Chicago by Skandinaven, which hailed its publication as a red-letter day for Norwegians in America.

Both Rasmus B. Anderson and H. H. Boyesen were subsequently instrumental in arranging a lecture tour of the Norwegian immigrant community in the United States.

It was here as Janson's secretary that the future Norwegian author Knut Hamsun got his initial impressions of American cultural life.

During this period Janson wrote several novels and short stories often attacking the orthodoxy of the Synod of the Norwegian Evangelical Lutheran Church in America.

He was subsequently asked by the American Unitarian Association to serve as minister among Scandinavian settlers in Minnesota.