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Author Billigmeier, Robert H

Title Old Land and the New : the Journals of Two Swiss Families in America in the 1820s
Published Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, 1965

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Description 1 online resource (291 pages)
Contents NOTE ON TRANSLATION; TABLE OF CONTENTS; INTRODUCTION; ACCOUNT OF A JOURNEY TO NORTH AMERICA AND THROUGH THE MOST SIGNIFICANT PARTS THEREOF; FOREWORD; THE SCHWEIZER JOURNAL; NOTE; LETTER; DAY BOOK ON A JOURNEY TO NORTH AMERICA IN THE YEAR 1823; EPILOGUE; INDEX; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; X; Y; Z
Summary These are the journals, in English translation, of Johannes Schweizer and Johann Rtlinger, early Swiss immigrants to America, who published the original accounts in Switzerland in 1823 and 1826, respectively. The two men were friends living in the Toggen
Notes Print version record
Subject Swiss -- United States.
Emigration and immigration
Swiss
Travel
SUBJECT United States -- Description and travel. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85139993
United States -- Emigration and immigration -- Personal narratives
Subject United States
Genre/Form Personal narratives
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780816661572
081666157X