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From America to Norway: Norwegian-american Immigrant Letters 1838#X96;1914, Volume 4, Indexes by Orm Øverland is a book available to read on EtoBox.
What is From America to Norway: Norwegian-american Immigrant Letters 1838#X96;1914, Volume 4, Indexes about?
Seeking economic improvement or a fresh start, following family or news of a land of opportunity, Norwegians left their homeland for America in great numbers in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. They settled in Pennsylvania and Illinois and moved on to Wisconsin, Iowa, Minnesota, and the Dakotas, finding in the preire or prærie a promising and hospitable landscape-and they wrote home about it. From these letters-some published in newspapers or newsletters, most found on family farms
- Author
- Orm Øverland
- Publisher
- Norwegian American Historical Assoc; Norwegian Amer Historical Assn
- Published
- 2012
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781517901455
- Subjects
- History, Humanities
- Updated
- 2026-03-25
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