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Title Letters from the promised land : Swedes in America, 1840-1914 / [edited] by H. Arnold Barton
Published Minneapolis, Minn. : Published by the University of Minnesota Press for the Swedish Pioneer Historical Society, [1975]

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Description 1 online resource (vi, 344 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations
Series North American women's letters and diaries
Contents INTRODUCTION; PART ONE: The Pioneers, 1840-1864; Background; Letters and Documents; Sections of illustrations; PART TWO: The Great Farmer-Land in the West, 1865-1889; Background; Letters and Documents; PART THREE: Farm, Forest, and Factory, 1890-1914; Background; Letters and Documents; EPILOGUE; APPENDIX: Swedish Terms and Swedish Regions; NOTES; SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY; SOURCES AND CREDITS; A; INDEX; B; D; C; F; E; H; G; J; K; L; I; M; O; P; N; R; S; Q; U; T; W; Y; V
Summary H Arnold Barton has contributed to Letters from the Promised Land: Swedes in America, 1840- 1914 as an author. H. Arnold Barton, professor of history at Southern Illinois University at Carbondale, is the author of ""The Search for Ancestors: A Swedish-American Family Saga, ""and ""Scandinavia in the Revolutionary Era, 1760-1815
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Swedish Americans -- History -- Sources
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Emigration & Immigration.
HISTORY -- United States -- State & Local -- General.
Swedish Americans
Genre/Form History
Sources
Form Electronic book
Author Barton, H. Arnold (Hildor Arnold), 1929-2016
Svendsen, Gro, 1841-1878.
Roos, Rosalie, 1823-1898.
ISBN 9780816693085
0816693080
0816638489
9780816638482
OTHER TI North American women's letters and diaries