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In their own words : letters from Norwegian immigrants / edited, translated and introduced by Solveig Zempel.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Original language: Norwegian Publisher: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press in cooperation with the Norwegian-American Historical Association, [1991]Copyright date: ©1991Description: xviii, 225 pages : illustrations, facsimiles, maps, portraits ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0816618585
  • 9780816618583
  • 0816618593
  • 9780816618590
Subject(s):
Contents:
Preface -- Introduction -- Sources of letters and photographs -- 1. A peripatetic schoolteacher : Andreas Hjerpeland : 1871-1893 -- 2. A single woman in Illinois : Berta Serina Kingestad : 1885-1893 -- 3. An urban Norwegian in the Red River Valley : Gunnar Høst : 1883-1905 -- 4. An unhappy immigrant returns home : Hans Øverland : 1887-1893 -- 5. A family moves to Wisconsin : Barbro Ramseth : 1888-1904 -- 6. Politics and gold mining on the West Coast : Hans Hansen and Sivert Øien : 1890-1913 -- 7. A Chicago mother : Bergljot Anker Nilssen : 1923-1929 -- 8. A Brooklyn builder : Christ Gundersen : 1908-1945 -- Maps -- Selected bibliography -- Index.
Summary: Letters translated, edited: schoolteacher, a single woman in Illinois, urban Norwegian in the Red River Valley, an unhappy immigrant returns to Norway, a family to Wisconsin, politics and gold mining on the west coast, a Chicago mother, a Brooklyn builder.
Holdings
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Not for Loan Not for Loan Main Library North Dakota Collection 305.8398 I35 Not for loan 33111011268386
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 215-217) and index.

Preface -- Introduction -- Sources of letters and photographs -- 1. A peripatetic schoolteacher : Andreas Hjerpeland : 1871-1893 -- 2. A single woman in Illinois : Berta Serina Kingestad : 1885-1893 -- 3. An urban Norwegian in the Red River Valley : Gunnar Høst : 1883-1905 -- 4. An unhappy immigrant returns home : Hans Øverland : 1887-1893 -- 5. A family moves to Wisconsin : Barbro Ramseth : 1888-1904 -- 6. Politics and gold mining on the West Coast : Hans Hansen and Sivert Øien : 1890-1913 -- 7. A Chicago mother : Bergljot Anker Nilssen : 1923-1929 -- 8. A Brooklyn builder : Christ Gundersen : 1908-1945 -- Maps -- Selected bibliography -- Index.

Letters translated, edited: schoolteacher, a single woman in Illinois, urban Norwegian in the Red River Valley, an unhappy immigrant returns to Norway, a family to Wisconsin, politics and gold mining on the west coast, a Chicago mother, a Brooklyn builder.

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