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Up in the Rocky Mountains : writing the Swedish immigrant experience / Jennifer Eastman Attebery.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Attebery, Jennifer Eastman, 1951-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Swedish Americans--West (U.S.)--Correspondence.
- Swedish Americans.
- Swedish Americans--Rocky Mountains Region--Correspondence.
- Immigrants--West (U.S.)--Correspondence.
- Immigrants.
- Immigrants--Rocky Mountains Region--Correspondence.
- Letter writing--West (U.S.)--History.
- Letter writing.
- Letter writing--Rocky Mountains Region--History.
- American letters--West (U.S.).
- American letters.
- American letters--Rocky Mountains Region.
- West (U.S.)--Social life and customs.
- West (U.S.).
- Rocky Mountains Region--Social life and customs.
- Rocky Mountains Region.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (326 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Minneapolis, Minn. : University of Minnesota Press ; Bristol : University Presses Marketing [distributor], c2007.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Jennifer Eastman Attebery offers a new perspective on Swedish immigrantsÕ experiences in Idaho, Montana, Utah, Wyoming, Colorado, and New Mexico from 1880 to 1917 by interpreting their letters home. Recognizing the lettersÕ power as a folk form, Attebery provides a model for discerning immigrantsÕ shared culture in correspondence collections and brings to life small Swedish communities throughout the Rocky Mountain region.
- Contents:
- Acknowledgments
- A note on translations
- Preface : expanding Swedish America westward
- Vernacular writing : letter writing as a folk practice
- "Thanks for the letter" : the shape of the genre
- "Here are many Swedes" : nodes and networks of Swedish settlement in the Rockies
- "I work every day" : becoming American workers
- "I am sending money" : old country and new
- "Out West" : identifying with a new region
- "God's good gift" : religious language in the Rocky Mountain letters
- Identity, genre, meaning : what we learn from reading vernacular letters
- Appendix : the letter writers and twenty letters.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 0-8166-5420-4
- OCLC:
- 476124071
- Publisher Number:
- heb40250 hdl
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