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Author Attebery, Jennifer Eastman, 1951-

Title Up in the Rocky Mountains : writing the Swedish immigrant experience / Jennifer Eastman Attebery
Published Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, ©2007

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Description 1 online resource (xx, 304 pages) : illustrations, map
Contents Acknowledgments -- A note on translations -- Preface : expanding Swedish America westward -- Vernacular writing : letter writing as a folk practice -- "Thanks for the letter" : the shape of the genre -- "Here are many Swedes" : nodes and networks of Swedish settlement in the Rockies -- "I work every day" : becoming American workers -- "I am sending money" : old country and new -- "Out West" : identifying with a new region -- "God's good gift" : religious language in the Rocky Mountain letters -- Identity, genre, meaning : what we learn from reading vernacular letters -- Appendix : the letter writers and twenty letters
Summary Jennifer Eastman Attebery offers a new perspective on Swedish immigrantsÕ experiences in Idaho, Montana, Utah, Wyoming, Colorado, and New Mexico from 1880 to 1917 by interpreting their letters home. Recognizing the lettersÕ power as a folk form, Attebery provides a model for discerning immigrantsÕ shared culture in correspondence collections and brings to life small Swedish communities throughout the Rocky Mountain region
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 281-294) and index
Notes English
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Subject Swedish Americans -- West (U.S.) -- Correspondence
Swedish Americans -- Rocky Mountains Region -- Correspondence
Immigrants -- West (U.S.) -- Correspondence
Immigrants -- Rocky Mountains Region -- Correspondence
Letter writing -- West (U.S.) -- History
Letter writing -- Rocky Mountains Region -- History
American letters -- West (U.S.)
American letters -- Rocky Mountains Region
HISTORY -- State & Local.
HISTORY -- United States -- State & Local -- West (AK, CA, CO, HI, ID, MT, NV, UT, WY)
American letters
Immigrants
Letter writing
Manners and customs
Swedish Americans
SUBJECT West (U.S.) -- Social life and customs
Rocky Mountains Region -- Social life and customs
Subject Rocky Mountains Region
West United States
Genre/Form History
Personal correspondence
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2007007489
ISBN 9780816654208
0816654204