Format:
1 online resource (484 pages)
ISBN:
9780816661596
Content:
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.
Content:
Intro -- Table of Contents -- The Immigrant Image of America -- The "Sloopfolk" Arrive -- THROUGH THE GREAT CANAL, AND OVERLAND -- ROOM HERE FOR ALL -- HERE WORK IS BETTER REWARDED -- THE COUNTRY IS GOOD, BUT- -- SO MANY PEOPLE MOVE IN -- THEY ARE STEADILY MOVING WEST -- Westward to El-a-noy -- THE LAND IS LARGELY PRAIRIE -- SPECULATORS HAD ALREADY TAKEN UP THE LAND -- THIS IS CANAAN -- CLENG PEERSON ADVISED US TO GO TO MISSOURI -- NOT A LAND OF MILK AND HONEY -- MEN OF ALL NATIONS LIVE HERE LIKE BROTHERS -- MAY THE LIES BE TRAMPLED UNDER FOOT! -- THE GREAT IN NORWAY HAVE THE UPPER HAND -- I AM NO EMISSARY TO PROMOTE EMIGRATION -- Wisconsin Is the Place -- NORWEGIANS OF MANY DIFFERENT CREEDS -- MANY CLAIM BETTER HEALTH THAN IN NORWAY -- LOW-LYING, SWAMPY PLACES BREED FEVERS -- WELL-TO-DO PEOPLE SHOULD NOT COME HERE -- EMPLOYEES ARE NOT TREATED HERE AS SERVANTS -- The Atlantic Crossing -- SOME SUFFERED GREATLY FROM THIRST -- A HAPPY VOYAGE TO US! -- AT THE QUARANTINE STATION, A WEDDING -- A CAPTAIN WHO DOES NOT SWINDLE PASSENGERS -- SOME ARRIVED IN NEW YORK VIRTUALLY DESTITUTE -- LIKE SO MANY PIGS STOWED TOGETHER -- THE CROSSING WAS VERY FAST, FORTY-TWO DAYS -- THE ONLY LAW THAT PREVAILED WAS CLUB LAW -- SOME WERE BEATEN BADLY ABOUT THE HEAD -- AT NEWFOUNDLAND WE CAUGHT SEVENTY COD -- THEY WERE ATTACKED BY CHOLERA -- TO SEE LAND ONCE AGAIN! -- MANY CONFLICTING FEELINGS STIR MY SOUL -- Scouting the Promised Land -- THIS LAND'S OVERWHELMING ADVANTAGES -- THERE ARE COUNTLESS THINGS TO CONSIDER -- Spreading the Gospel -- A BEER GLASS SERVED AS OUR CHALICE -- TO PRESERVE THE RITUAL OF THEIR FATHERS -- PEASANTS WILL RUE THE DAY THEY EMIGRATED -- CONTROVERSY AWAITS THE MINISTER -- CONFUSED BY SILLY NOTIONS OF LIBERTY -- WE HAD TO MOVE INTO A ONE-ROOM CABIN -- THE OLD, BAD NORWEGIAN CUSTOM OF DRINKING -- GIFTS OF CHRISTIAN CHARITY.
Note:
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Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780816601035
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9780816601035
Additional Edition:
Print version Land of Their Choice The Immigrants Write Home
Language:
English
URL:
https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/kxp/detail.action?docID=345284
