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Up in the Rocky Mountains: Writing the Swedish Immigrant Experience
Jennifer Eastman Attebery
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In Up in the Rocky Mountains, Jennifer Eastman Attebery offers a new perspective on Swedish immigrants’s experiences in Idaho, Montana, Utah, Wyoming, Colorado, and New Mexico from 1880 to 1917 by interpreting their letters home. Considering more than three hundred letters, Attebery analyzes their storytelling, repetitive language, traditional phrasing, and metaphoric images. Recognizing the letters’s power as a folk form, Attebery sees in them the writers’s relationships back in Sweden as well as their encounters with religious and labor movements, regionalism, and nationalism in their new country.
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Cover Page
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Title Page
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Copyright Page
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Dedication
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Contents
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Acknowledgments
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A Note on Translations
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Preface: Expanding Swedish America Westward
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1. Vernacular Writing: Letter Writing as a Folk Practice
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2. “Thanks for the Letter”: The Shape of the Genre
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3. “Here Are Many Swedes”: Nodes and Networks of Swedish Settlement in the Rockies
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4. “I Work Every Day”: Becoming American Workers
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5. “I Am Sending Money”: Old Country and New
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6. “Out West”: Identifying with a New Region
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7. “God’s Good Gift”: Religious Language in the Rocky Mountain Letters
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8. Identity, Genre, Meaning: What We Learn from Reading Vernacular Letters
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Appendix: The Letter Writers and Twenty Letters
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Notes
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Bibliography
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Index
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Published: 2007
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
- 9780816647682 (paper)