The Swedish Pioneer Historical Quarterly

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Category : Swedes
Languages : en
Pages : 340

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The Swedish Pioneer Historical Quarterly

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Category : Swedes
Languages : en
Pages : 340

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The Swedish Pioneer Historical Quarterly

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Category : Swedish Americans
Languages : en
Pages : 606

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The Swedish-American Historical Quarterly

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Category : Swedes
Languages : en
Pages : 524

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The Search for Ancestors

The Search for Ancestors PDF Author: Hildor Arnold Barton
Publisher: SIU Press
ISBN: 9780809308934
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 208

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Sven Svensson (1817-1908) married Sara Marie Öhrn, and they emigrated from Sweden to land near West Dayton (now Dayton), Iowa in 1867. Descendants lived in Iowa, Illinois and elsewhere. Includes Swedish ancestry in the province of Småland, which contains the counties of Jönköping, Kronoberg and Kalmar.

Letters from the Promised Land

Letters from the Promised Land PDF Author: H. Arnold Barton
Publisher: U of Minnesota Press
ISBN: 9781452905457
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 376

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Swedish immigrants tell their own stories in this collection of letters, diaries, and memoirs--a perfect book for those interested in history, immigration, or just the daily lives of early Swedish-American settlers.

The Old Country and the New

The Old Country and the New PDF 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

Swedish Exodus

Swedish Exodus PDF Author: Lars Ljungmark
Publisher: SIU Press
ISBN: 9780809320479
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 196

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"America fever" gripped Sweden in the middle of the nineteenth century, seethed to a peak in 1910, when one-fifth of the world’s Swedes lived in America, cooled during World War I, and chilled to dead ash with the advent of the Great Depression in 1930. Swedish Exodus, the first English translation and revision of Lars Ljungmark’s Den Stora Utvandringen, recounts more than a century of Swedish emigration, concentrating on such questions as who came to America, how the character of the emigrants changed with each new wave of emigration, what these people did when they reached their adopted country, and how they gradually became Americanized. Ljungmark’s essential challenge was to capture in a factual account the broad sweep of emigration history. But often he narrows his focus to look closely at those who took part in this mass migration. Through historical records and personal letters, Ljungmark brings many of these people back to life. One young woman, for example, loved her parents, but loved America more: "I never expect to speak to you in this life. . . . Your loving daughter unto death." Like most immigrants, she never expected to return. Another immigrant wrote back seeking a wife: "I wonder how you have it and if you are living. . . . Are you married or unmarried? If you are unmarried, you can have a good home with me." Ljungmark also focuses closely on some of the leaders: Peter Cassel, a liberal temperance supporter and free-church leader whose community in America prospered; Hans Mattson, a colonel in the Civil War and founder of a colony in Minnesota; Erik Jansson, a book burner, self-proclaimed messiah, and founder of the Bishop Hill Colony; Gustaf Unonius, a student idealist and founder of a Wisconsin colony that faltered. The story of Swedish immigrants in the United States is the story in miniature of the greatest mass migration in human history, that of thirty-five million Europeans who left their homes to come to America. It is a human story of interest not only to Swedes but to everyone.

Swedish-American Historical Quarterly

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Category : Swedish Americans
Languages : en
Pages : 286

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Comes the Day, Comes the Way

Comes the Day, Comes the Way PDF Author: Helga Skogsbergh
Publisher: Hassell Street Press
ISBN: 9781014323446
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 152

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This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. To ensure a quality reading experience, this work has been proofread and republished using a format that seamlessly blends the original graphical elements with text in an easy-to-read typeface. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

A Folk Divided

A Folk Divided PDF Author: Hildor Arnold Barton
Publisher: SIU Press
ISBN: 9780809319442
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 452

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"What happens to a people ... when it becomes divided and separated through a great overseas migration? ... how do the two parts of such a divided people relate to each other? What ideas do they have regarding each other as the process continues and as time and circumstance cause them to develop in separate ways of their own? The purpose of this book is to seek answers to such questions in the case of the Swedes during the period of their great migration, between roughly 1840 and 1940." -- Pref.