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Up in the Rocky Mountains : writing the Swedish immigrant experience
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- Creator
- Jennifer Eastman Attebery
- Format
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- Language
- English
- Publication
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- Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, [2007]
- ©2007
- Physical Details
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- xx, 304 pages : illustrations, map ; 23 cm
- ISBNs
- 0816647682, 0816647674, 9780816647682, 0816654204, 9780816647675, 9780816654208
- OCLC
- ocm85623054, ocn476124071, ocn182859500
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 281-294) and index.
- Acknowledgments -- A note on translations -- Preface : expanding Swedish America westward -- Vernacular writing : letter writing as a folk practice -- "Thanks for the letter" : the shape of the genre -- "Here are many Swedes" : nodes and networks of Swedish settlement in the Rockies -- "I work every day" : becoming American workers -- "I am sending money" : old country and new -- "Out West" : identifying with a new region -- "God's good gift" : religious language in the Rocky Mountain letters -- Identity, genre, meaning : what we learn from reading vernacular letters -- Appendix : the letter writers and twenty letters
Subjects
- Swedish Americans -- West (U.S.) -- Correspondence.
- Swedish Americans -- Rocky Mountains Region -- Correspondence.
- Immigrants -- West (U.S.) -- Correspondence.
- Immigrants -- Rocky Mountains Region -- Correspondence.
- Letter writing -- West (U.S.) -- History.
- Letter writing -- Rocky Mountains Region -- History.
- American letters -- West (U.S.)
- American letters -- Rocky Mountains Region.
- West (U.S.) -- Social life and customs.
- Rocky Mountains Region -- Social life and customs.