In their own words : letters from Norwegian immigrants

In their own words : letters from Norwegian immigrants / edited, translated and introduced by Solveig Zempel.

Forming an engaging, colorful mosaic of voices from the immigrant experience, this collection of letters offers a unique perspective on historical events as well as the experience of everyday life.

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Zempel, Solveig
Format: eBook
Language:English
Norwegian
Published: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press in cooperation with the Norwegian-American Historical Association, ©1991.
Subjects:
Norwegian Americans > Correspondence.
Norwegians > United States.
Emigration and immigration
Norwegian Americans
Norwegians
Norway > Emigration and immigration.
Norway
United States
Personal correspondence
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Table of Contents:
  • Preface
  • Introduction
  • Sources of Letters and Photographs
  • 1. A Peripatetic Schoolteacher: Andreas Hjerpeland: 1871-1893
  • 2. A Single Woman in Illinois: Berta Serina Kingestad: 1885-1893
  • 3. An Urban Norwegian in the Red River Valley: Gunnar Høst: 1883-1905
  • 4. An Unhappy Immigrant Returns Home: Hans Øverland: 1887-1893
  • 5. A Family Moves to Wisconsin: Barbro Ramseth: 1888-1904
  • 6. Politics and Gold Mining on the West Coast: Hans Hansen and Sivert Øien: 1890
  • 1913
  • 7. A Chicago Mother: Bergljot Anker Nilssen: 1923-1929.
  • 8. A Brooklyn Builder: Christ Gundersen: 1908-1945
  • Maps
  • Selected Bibliography
  • Index
  • A
  • B
  • C
  • D
  • E
  • F
  • G
  • H
  • I
  • J
  • K
  • L
  • M
  • N
  • O
  • P
  • Q
  • R
  • S
  • T
  • U
  • V
  • W.

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