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Title

Dannebrog on the American prairie : a Danish colony project in the 1870's : land purchase and the beginnings of a town / Torben Grøngaard Jeppesen ; translated by James D. Iversen.

Author

Grøngaard Jeppesen, Torben.

Publication

Odense, Denmark : Odense City Museums : Distributed by Odense University Press, c2000.

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Additional Authors

• Iversen, James D.
• Odense bys museer.

Description

288 p. : ill., maps (some col.); 25 cm.

Summary

"With this book on the origins of a Danish colony the focus is set on how Danish settlers established themselves in the American society. The colony 'Dannebrog' in Nebraska was founded in 1871 by a group of immigrants who some years earlier had settled down in Wisconsin." "By organizing The Danish Land and Homestead Company they set the goal farther west to build a large Danish colony comprising farmland as well as a real town. The book describes and analyzes specific details including the many difficulties and with strong competition for the acquisition of a continuous area of land and the foundation of a vigorous town. Laws, statutes, political structures, economics and labor- and trade organizations were completely different from Denmark. The realization of the dream required the ability to quickly gain insight into the new society and to become a part of it. In return the immigrants with their Danish roots and values could then be successful at forming a new society on the American prairie."--BOOK JACKET.

Uniform Title

Dannebrog på den amerikanske prærie. English.

Alternative Title

Dannebrog på den amerikanske prærie.

Subject

• Danish Americans > Dannebrog > History
• Dannebrog (Neb.) > History

Genre/Form

• History
• History.

Note

• "Translation from the original Danish edition "Dannebrog på den amerikanske prærie. Et dansk koloniprojekt i 1870'ere - landkøb, bygrundlæggelse og integration", Odense 2000"--T.p. verso.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 282-288).

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Emigration to the USA -- Distribution of Danes in the USA -- Theories about Distribution and Assimilation of the Danes -- Dannebrog -- a Danish Colony-initiative on the Prairie -- Among the Danes in Wisconsin -- Wisconsin -- Goal for the earliest Danish Emigration -- Pine Lake -- The first Danish Settlement -- Lars Hannibal's Arrival to the Pine Lake Area -- Sergeant in the 15th Infantry Regiment of the Wisconsin Volunteers -- The Pine Lake Area Around 1870 -- The Danish Land and Homestead Company -- The Idea Behind the Land Company -- The Company Achieves Recognition by the Wisconsin Legislature -- The Group Behind the Company -- Further Progress -- Government and Railroad Land -- The Land is Found -- A Committee is Sent Out -- The End of the Company -- The Trip to the Middle Loup River -- Colonizing of the Area by the Middle Loup River -- The Dannebrog Colony Comes Into Existence -- The Source Material -- Colonization in the First Years -- Lars Hannibal as Landowner -- The Founding of the Prairie Town Dannebrog -- Town Site for Dannebrog -- Deeds to the Land -- In Good Times and Bad -- Lars Hannibal as a 'Town Builder'.

ISBN

8787162857

LCCN

^^2001422924

OCLC

46873753

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library