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A translation of 'LINDSBORG, Bidrag Till Svenskarnas och Den Lutherska Kyrkans Historia i Smoky Hill River Dalen' by Dr. Alfred Bergin.
Author : Alfred Bergin
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Page : 292 pages
File Size : 40,31 MB
Release : 1965
Category : Frontier and pioneer life
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A translation of 'LINDSBORG, Bidrag Till Svenskarnas och Den Lutherska Kyrkans Historia i Smoky Hill River Dalen' by Dr. Alfred Bergin.
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Page : 340 pages
File Size : 26,7 MB
Release : 1977
Category : Swedes
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Page : 584 pages
File Size : 12,43 MB
Release : 2009
Category : Swedes
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Author : George E. Pozzetta
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 13,46 MB
Release : 1991
Category : Acculturation
ISBN : 9780824074043
First published in 1991. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Author : Emory Lindquist
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Page : 306 pages
File Size : 31,47 MB
Release : 1953
Category : Lindsborg (Kan.)
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Author : Rolf Johnson
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 44,68 MB
Release : 2000-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780803276147
In 1876 Rolf Johnson and his family left Illinois for Phelps County, Nebraska. There they faced the challenges of pioneering on the Great Plains: digging wells, building sod houses, plowing and planting crops, and fighting prairie fires. Johnson's diary goes beyond individual conquest, however, and provides insight into the great cooperative endeavor of plains settlement. Rolf's Swedish family and neighbors worked and socialized with other Swedes just as nearby Danish settlers remained in close physical and cultural contact with other Danish immigrants. A very eligible ninetten-year-old bachelor, Rolf also offers touching vignettes on the rituals of courting. Abruptly, with no explanation in his diary, and with no itinerary or prospects, Rolf left home in 1879 "with the intention of going west for a season." His departure may have been sparked by the marital fervor exhibited by a female suitor. Rolf felt he was "not quite prepared to leave the state of single blessedness for that of double misery." In Sidney, Nebraska, he ran with the "sporting" element, who showed him photographs of "fast women of the town stark naked." He found employment with a wagon freighter headed for the Black Hills, where he saw Calamity Jane in action. Rolf's education continued until the diaries end in Cubero, New Mexico, in 1880. He returned to Phelps County in 1882 and remained there for most of his life. Rolf's lively diaries offer an entertaining eyewitness account of pioneer life and an unmatched resource for historians.
Author : Philip J. Anderson
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Page : 420 pages
File Size : 43,39 MB
Release : 1992
Category : History
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Papers originally presented at a conference held in Chicago in Oct. 1988, sponsored by the Swedish-American Historical Society, and other others.
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Page : 344 pages
File Size : 31,66 MB
Release : 1998
Category : Swedish Americans
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Page : 1010 pages
File Size : 23,55 MB
Release : 1986
Category : Conservation of natural resources
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Author : Susan Larson-Fleming
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Page : 76 pages
File Size : 31,75 MB
Release : 1983
Category : Sweden
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