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Up in the Rocky Mountains : writing the Swedish immigrant experience / Jennifer Eastman Attebery.

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Jennifer Eastman Attebery offers a new perspective on Swedish immigrantsÕ experiences in Idaho, Montana, Utah, Wyoming, Colorado, and New Mexico from 1880 to 1917 by interpreting their letters home. Recognizing the lettersÕ power as a folk form, Attebery provides a model for discerning immigrantsÕ s...

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Online Access: Full Text (via ProQuest)
Main Author: Attebery, Jennifer Eastman, 1951-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, ©2007.
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.
American letters.
Immigrants.
Letter writing.
Manners and customs.
Swedish Americans.
Rocky Mountains Region.
West United States.
History.
Personal correspondence.
Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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