Land of their choice : the immigrants write home /
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.
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English Norwegian |
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[Minneapolis, Minn.] :
University of Minnesota Press,
1955.
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| Series: | North American women's letters and diaries.
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| Online Access: | CONNECT CONNECT |
Table of 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.
