Description |
1 online resource (xx, 304 pages) : illustrations, map |
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 |
Summary |
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 shared culture in correspondence collections and brings to life small Swedish communities throughout the Rocky Mountain region |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 281-294) and index |
Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
Subject |
Swedish Americans -- West (U.S.) -- Correspondence
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Swedish Americans -- Rocky Mountains Region -- Correspondence
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Immigrants -- West (U.S.) -- Correspondence
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Immigrants -- Rocky Mountains Region -- Correspondence
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Letter writing -- West (U.S.) -- History
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Letter writing -- Rocky Mountains Region -- History
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American letters -- West (U.S.)
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American letters -- Rocky Mountains Region
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HISTORY -- State & Local.
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HISTORY -- United States -- State & Local -- West (AK, CA, CO, HI, ID, MT, NV, UT, WY)
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American letters
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Immigrants
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Letter writing
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Manners and customs
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Swedish Americans
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SUBJECT |
West (U.S.) -- Social life and customs
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Rocky Mountains Region -- Social life and customs
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Rocky Mountains Region
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West United States
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Genre/Form |
History
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Personal correspondence
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Form |
Electronic book
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LC no. |
2007007489 |
ISBN |
9780816654208 |
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0816654204 |
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