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Up in the Rocky Mountains : writing the Swedish immigrant experience
- Title
- Up in the Rocky Mountains : writing the Swedish immigrant experience / Jennifer Eastman Attebery.
- Author
- Attebery, Jennifer Eastman, 1951-
- Publication
- Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, c2007.
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- Description
- xx, 304 p. : ill., map; 23 cm.
- Subjects
- West (U.S.) > Social life and customs
- Immigrants > Rocky Mountains Region > Correspondence
- Swedish Americans > West (U.S.) > Correspondence
- American letters > Rocky Mountains Region
- Rocky Mountains Region > Social life and customs
- Letter writing > Rocky Mountains Region > History
- American letters > West (U.S.)
- Letter writing > West (U.S.) > History
- Immigrants > West (U.S.) > Correspondence
- Swedish Americans > Rocky Mountains Region > Correspondence
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 281-294) and index.
- 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.
- Call Number
- IEP 07-4975
- ISBN
- 9780816647675 (hc : alk. paper)
- 0816647674 (hc : alk. paper)
- 9780816647682 (pb : alk. paper)
- 0816647682 (pb : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 2007007489
- OCLC
- 85623054
- Author
- Attebery, Jennifer Eastman, 1951-
- Title
- Up in the Rocky Mountains : writing the Swedish immigrant experience / Jennifer Eastman Attebery.
- Imprint
- Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, c2007.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 281-294) and index.
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- Research Call Number
- IEP 07-4975