Author: H. Arnold Barton
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ISBN: 9789163045707
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Languages : sv
Pages : 121

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Category : New Sweden (Iowa)
Languages : en
Pages : 63

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Author: Swedish Historical Society of America
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Category : New Sweden (Iowa)
Languages : en
Pages : 82

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Author: Kathryn Bergstrom
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Category : Immigrants' writings, American
Languages : en
Pages : 61

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Author: H. Arnold Barton
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ISBN: 9784871871075
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 134

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This is a collection of essays and articles about Peter Cassel, who is famous for being the leader of the first group of Swedes who established the first Swedish settlement West of the Mississippi in Iowa in 1845, before Iowa became a state. I am a direct descendant of Peter Cassel. My mother, Dr. Helen Marjorie Jacobson Sloan (1910-2002), was the daughter of Wesley Jacobson (1877-1963), who was the son of Axel Jacobson who was born in 1843 in Follingasjo, Kisa, Ostergotlund, Sweden and his wife Carrie Cassel who was born in 1851 in Jefferson County, New Sweden, Iowa. Carrie Cassel was the first Swedish person born in America. Her father was Peter Cassel. This group had left from Sweden planning to join another Swedish group in Pine Lake, Wisconsin. However on the way, they heard there was better farm land available in Iowa so they went to Iowa instead. This advice proved to be correct as Iowa is now the bread basket of America with the most productive farm land anywhere. The ship from Sweden to New York took four months. This was longer than the discovery voyage by Christopher Columbus from Spain to the Bahamas that took 33 days. After landing in New York, they when to Philadelphia, then crossed the mountains by railroad and canal to Pittsburgh, then sailed down the Ohio River to the area of St. Louis and then went up the Mississippi River and then went up the Skunk River to Jefferson County, Iowa. This took four months. When they arrived, there was nothing there except for a house with four walls but no roof, so they had to chop trees and build their own quarters. They had to endure great hardship and many died along the way, but there was no turning back as they had sold their remaining possessions back in Sweden to prepare for this trip. They had arrived in Iowa with less than a dollar. They had come all the way to Iowa planning to stay permanently. Hearing of their supposed success, another group left Sweden the following year. After landing in New York, the route they followed was different. They crossed to Buffalo by the Erie Canal. Then they crossed by the Great Lakes to Toledo. They sailed down the Ohio River to the area of St. Louis and then went up the Mississippi River. However, they took a wrong left turn and went up the wrong river. When they reached wild Indian territory near Des Moines, they realized their mistake. Some turned back intending to join the original group. Others decided to stop there and stay where they were and established a settlement that they called New Sweden. It is now in the area of Madrid, a bit Northwest of Des Moines Iowa. They settled on lands that had been purchased from the Indians.

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Category : Cooking
Languages : en
Pages : 45

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Author: Dorothy Schwieder
Publisher: University of Iowa Press
ISBN: 1587296764
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 400

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In this engrossing history of the Hawkeye State, Dorothy Schweider reveals a place of fascinating grassroots politics, economic troubles and triumphs, surprising cultural diversity, and unsung natural beauty. Above all, this is the history of the people of Iowa and the lives they have led—the accomplishments of both ordinary and not-so-ordinary Iowans.

Author: Barton, H. Arnold
Publisher: SIU Press
ISBN: 9780809389506
Category : Immigrants
Languages : en
Pages : 320

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"In this collection are seventeen essays and seven editorials by Barton and published in leading journals between 1974 and 2005. The subjects include post-World War II Swedish immigration and remigration to Sweden. A full bibliography of Barton's publications on Swedish-American history and culture is included"--Provided by publisher

Author: Alan H. Winquist
Publisher: Minnesota Historical Society
ISBN: 0873517040
Category : Historic sites
Languages : en
Pages : 377

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With over 1.3 million Swedish Americans in residence, it is no surprise that the United States has a wealth of landmarks that pay homage to the Swedish people and culture. Touring Swedish America details the locations, histories, and stories behind more than 1,000 such places, including the charming Holy Trinity Church, built in stone and brick in Wilmington, Delaware; the rustic S.M. Swenson log cabin in Austin, Texas; the water tower in the form of a rosemaled coffee cup in Stanton, Iowa; and actress Ann-Margaret's handprints outside the Mann Chinese Theater in West Hollywood, California. Published in conjunction with the Swedish Council of America, Touring Swedish America is the comprehensive guide to historic towns, homes, and churches erected during the mass Swedish migration beginning in 1840s, as well as the art, architecture, schools, hospitals, businesses, museums, and gardens still in use today. Organized by state and featuring easy-to-use appendixes that outline sites on the National Register of Historic Places, this comprehensive guide with handy regional maps is the perfect tool for all travelers on the hunt for slices of their Swedish past.

Author: Cherilyn A Walley
Publisher: University of Wales Press
ISBN: 0708322417
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 251

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The Welsh in Iowa is the history of the little known Welsh immigrant communities in the American Midwestern state of Iowa. Dr. Walley’s book identifies what made the Welsh unique as immigrants to North America, and as migrants and settlers in a land built on such groups. With research rooted in documentary evidence and supplemented with community and oral histories, The Welsh in Iowa preserves and examines Welsh culture as it was expressed in middle America by the farmers and coal miners who settled or passed through the prairie state as it grew to maturity in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. This work seeks to not only document the Welsh immigrants who lived in Iowa, but to study the Welsh as a distinct ethnic group in a state known for its ethnic heritage.