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Land of Their Choice - The Immigrants Write Home (Paperback, Minnesota Archi)
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Land of Their Choice - The Immigrants Write Home (Paperback, Minnesota Archi)
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Land of Their Choice was first published in 1955. Minnesota Archive
Editions uses digital technology to make long-unavailable books
once again accessible, and are published unaltered from the
original University of Minnesota Press editions. This collection of
"American letters" that immigrants wrote to friends and relatives
in the lands they had left tells a little-known human story that is
part of the larger saga of America. It constitutes a kind of
composite diary of everyday people at the grass roots of American
life. The letters published here, written by Norwegian immigrants
in the middle of the nineteenth century, are truly representative
of a great body of historical material - literally millions of such
letters that immigrants of every nationality wrote to the people
back home. Describing their journeys, the new country, the problems
and pleasures of daily life, the letters afford new insight into
the American past and at the same time reflect the image of America
that was projected into the minds of Europeans in an era when
millions were crossing the seas and moving west. The letters were
written from many different parts of the United States. Many relate
the experiences of settlers in the Middle West, particularly in
Illinois, Wisconsin, Iowa, and Minnesota. But there are also
accounts of pioneer life in Texas and as far away from the Atlantic
crossing as California. The story of Oleana, the ill-fated Utopian
project established in Pennsylvania by the famous Norwegian
violinist, Ole Bull, is revealed in a collection of letters written
by settlers in this project. An English translation of the amusing
ballad of Oleana adds verve to this section. Another fascinating
portion of the volume is devoted to first-hand accounts of the
transatlantic gold rush that drew Norwegians directly by ship from
their native land to California in the 1850's. There are some
letters written by leaders in Norwegian-American history, such as
Johann R. Reiersen, who was a well-known newspaper editor in
Christianssand, Norway, before he migrated to America, and the Rev.
J.W. Dietrichson who sought to establish the Church of Norway on
American soil and whose letters, now translated into English for
the first time, relate his experiences in Wisconsin.
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