Up in the Rocky Mountains : writing the Swedish immigrant experience / Jennifer Eastman Attebery.

Author/creator Attebery, Jennifer Eastman, 1951-
Format Book
Publication InfoMinneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, ©2007.
Descriptionxx, 304 pages : illustrations, map ; 23 cm
Supplemental ContentTable of contents only
Subjects
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.
West (U.S.)--Social life and customs.
Rocky Mountains Region--Social life and customs.

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.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. 281-294) and index.
LCCN 2007007489
ISBN9780816647675 (hc : alk. paper)
ISBN0816647674 (hc : alk. paper)
ISBN9780816647682 (pb : alk. paper)
ISBN0816647682 (pb : alk. paper)