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Land of their choice : the immigrants write home / edited by Theodore C. Blegen.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Norwegian Americans.
- United States--Civilization.
- United States.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (463 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- [Minneapolis, Minn.] : University of Minnesota Press, 1955.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This collection of American letters that immigrants wrote to friends and relatives in the lands they had left tells a little-known human story that is part of the larger saga of America. It constitutes a kind of composite diary of everyday people at the.
- Contents:
- The immigrant image of America
- The "sloopfolk" arrive
- Westward to El-a-noy
- Wisconsin is the place
- The Atlantic crossing
- Scouting the promised land
- Spreading the gospel
- Journeying toward new horizons
- Ordeal and debate
- Appraising the American scene
- The transatlantic gold rush
- Cheerful voices at mid-century
- More than a ballad
- A humorist in Canaan
- A lady grows old in Texas
- In defense of the southwest
- From a frontier parsonage
- The beautiful land
- The glorious new Scandinavia.
- Notes:
- Includes index.
- ISBN:
- 0-8166-5710-6
- OCLC:
- 233572688
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