 They picked up fiddling as early, you know, through the fur trade in lumber camps and their fiddling and step-step dancing kinds of sounds. And in many areas what happened naturally was a mixing of styles. Neighbors would share tunes, as would men working alongside each other on farms, in the mines or in lumber camps. And what developed was something of a local upper Midwest vernacular, not pure Norwegian music or Irish or Polish, but a blend, an evolution.