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Attebery Jennifer Eastman <1951-> |
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Titolo |
Up in the Rocky Mountains [[electronic resource] ] : writing the Swedish immigrant experience / / Jennifer Eastman Attebery |
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Minneapolis, Minn., : University of Minnesota Press |
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Bristol, : University Presses Marketing [distributor], c2007 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (326 p.) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Swedish Americans - West (U.S.) |
Swedish Americans - Rocky Mountains Region |
Immigrants - West (U.S.) |
Immigrants - Rocky Mountains Region |
Letter writing - West (U.S.) - History |
Letter writing - Rocky Mountains Region - History |
American letters - West (U.S.) |
American letters - Rocky Mountains Region |
West (U.S.) Social life and customs |
Rocky Mountains Region Social life and customs |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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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. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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Jennifer Eastman Attebery offers a new perspective on Swedish immigrantsÕ experiences in Idaho, Montana, Utah, Wyoming, Colorado, |
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