In Their Own Words: Letters from Norwegian Immigrants
by Solveig Zempel
If your ancestors were like mine, they left no written trail. So, we are left to gain from those letters that survived some of the immigrants to understand the rest!
Jim
Synopsis
These translations of letters home by nine Norwegian immigrants detail their perception of America and their adjustment to its lifestyle between 1870 and 1945
Contents
- A Peripatetic Schoolteacher
Ivar Kleiven, Norway, Norwegian language - A Single Woman in Illinois
Malta, Selia, Stavanger - An Urban Norwegian in the Red River Valley
Grand Forks, Gunnar Höst, North Dakota - An Unhappy Immigrant Returns Home
Nedstrand, Verdens Gang, Johan Sverdrup - A Family Moves to Wisconsin
Tynset, Wisconsin, godparents - Politics and Gold Mining on the West Coast
Hans Hansen, Seattle, Alaska
Library of Congress Catalog Record
- LC Control No.: 90011012 LCCN
- Type of Material: Book (Print, Microform, Electronic, etc.)
- Main Title: In their own words : letters from Norwegian immigrants / edited, translated and introduced by Solveig Zempel.
- Published/Created: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press in cooperation with the Norwegian-American Historical Association, c1991.
- Related Names: Zempel, Solveig.
- Description: xviii, 225 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.
- ISBN: 0816618585 (acid-free paper) 0816618593 (pbk. : acid-free paper)
- Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 215-217) and index.
- Subjects: Norwegian Americans --Correspondence.
- LC Classification: E184.S2 I5 1990
- Dewey Class No.: 305.83/982073/09034 20
- Language Code: eng nor
- Geographic Area Code: n-us---
