From America to Norway : Norwegian-American immigrant letters, 1838-1914
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From America to Norway : Norwegian-American immigrant letters, 1838-1914
Norwegian-American Historical Association , Distributed by University of Minnesota Press, 2012
- v. 1
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Fra Amerika til Norge
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"Based on a Norwegian edition in seven volumes, Fra Amerika til Norge"--Jacket
Vol. 1. 1838-1870
Includes bibliographical references
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Seeking economic improvement or a fresh start, following family or news of a land of opportunity, Norwegians left their homeland for America in great numbers in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. They settled in Pennsylvania and Illinois and moved on to Wisconsin, Iowa, Minnesota, and the Dakotas, finding in the preire or praerie a promising and hospitable landscape-and they wrote home about it.
From these letters-some published in newspapers or newsletters, most found on family farms and in homes held for generation after generation-comes a polyphonic history of Norwegian immigration. Sent from towns and cities and rural outposts, from Chicago and Minneapolis (the Norwegian-American "capital"), from Four Mile Prairie, Texas, and Coon Prairie, Wisconsin, from Hot Creek, Nevada, and Rock Creek, Iowa, and from Christiana, Wisconsin, to Christiania (now Oslo), Norway, these letters were concerned with matters from the price of postage to the question of picking up stakes and moving halfway around the world and afford an intimate view of the vast and varied experience of Norwegian immigrants settling in this country.
In this volume, edited and translated by Orm Overland and covering the period from 1838 to 1870, Norwegian immigrants relate the successes, challenges, and sorrows of their new life to the communities they left behind.
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