The Resource Up in the Rocky Mountains : writing the Swedish immigrant experience, Jennifer Eastman Attebery
Up in the Rocky Mountains : writing the Swedish immigrant experience, Jennifer Eastman Attebery
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The item Up in the Rocky Mountains : writing the Swedish immigrant experience, Jennifer Eastman Attebery represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Missouri University of Science & Technology Library.
This item is available to borrow from 1 library branch.
- Summary
- Jennifer Eastman Attebery offers a new perspective on Swedish immigrantsÕ experiences in Idaho, Montana, Utah, Wyoming, Colorado, and New Mexico from 1880 to 1917 by interpreting their letters home. Recognizing the lettersÕ power as a folk form, Attebery provides a model for discerning immigrantsÕ shared culture in correspondence collections and brings to life small Swedish communities throughout the Rocky Mountain region
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- 1 online resource (xx, 304 pages)
- 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
- Isbn
- 9780816654208
- Label
- Up in the Rocky Mountains : writing the Swedish immigrant experience
- Title
- Up in the Rocky Mountains
- Title remainder
- writing the Swedish immigrant experience
- Statement of responsibility
- Jennifer Eastman Attebery
- Subject
-
- American letters
- American letters -- Rocky Mountains Region
- American letters -- West (U.S.)
- HISTORY -- State & Local
- HISTORY -- United States -- State & Local | West (AK, CA, CO, HI, ID, MT, NV, UT, WY)
- History
- Immigrants
- Immigrants -- Rocky Mountains Region -- Correspondence
- Immigrants -- West (U.S.) -- Correspondence
- Letter writing
- Letter writing -- Rocky Mountains Region -- History
- Letter writing -- West (U.S.) -- History
- Personal correspondence
- Rocky Mountains Region
- Rocky Mountains Region -- Social life and customs
- Swedish Americans
- Swedish Americans -- Rocky Mountains Region -- Correspondence
- Swedish Americans -- West (U.S.) -- Correspondence
- West (U.S.) -- Social life and customs
- West United States
- Manners and customs
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- Jennifer Eastman Attebery offers a new perspective on Swedish immigrantsÕ experiences in Idaho, Montana, Utah, Wyoming, Colorado, and New Mexico from 1880 to 1917 by interpreting their letters home. Recognizing the lettersÕ power as a folk form, Attebery provides a model for discerning immigrantsÕ shared culture in correspondence collections and brings to life small Swedish communities throughout the Rocky Mountain region
- Biography type
- contains biographical information
- Cataloging source
- N$T
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorDate
- 1951-
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Attebery, Jennifer Eastman
- Dewey number
- 978/.004397
- Government publication
- government publication of a state province territory dependency etc
- Illustrations
-
- illustrations
- maps
- Index
- index present
- LC call number
- F596.3.S23
- LC item number
- A88 2007eb
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
-
- dictionaries
- bibliography
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
-
- Swedish Americans
- Swedish Americans
- Immigrants
- Immigrants
- Letter writing
- Letter writing
- American letters
- American letters
- West (U.S.)
- Rocky Mountains Region
- HISTORY
- HISTORY
- American letters
- Immigrants
- Letter writing
- Manners and customs
- Swedish Americans
- Rocky Mountains Region
- West United States
- Label
- Up in the Rocky Mountains : writing the Swedish immigrant experience, Jennifer Eastman Attebery
- Antecedent source
- unknown
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 281-294) and index
- Carrier category
- online resource
- Carrier category code
-
- cr
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Color
- multicolored
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- 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
- Control code
- 182859500
- Dimensions
- unknown
- Extent
- 1 online resource (xx, 304 pages)
- File format
- unknown
- Form of item
- online
- Isbn
- 9780816654208
- Level of compression
- unknown
- Media category
- computer
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- c
- Other physical details
- illustrations, map
- http://library.link/vocab/ext/overdrive/overdriveId
- 22573/cttbj2vg
- Quality assurance targets
- not applicable
- Reformatting quality
- unknown
- Sound
- unknown sound
- Specific material designation
- remote
- System control number
- (OCoLC)182859500
- Label
- Up in the Rocky Mountains : writing the Swedish immigrant experience, Jennifer Eastman Attebery
- Antecedent source
- unknown
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 281-294) and index
- Carrier category
- online resource
- Carrier category code
-
- cr
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Color
- multicolored
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- 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
- Control code
- 182859500
- Dimensions
- unknown
- Extent
- 1 online resource (xx, 304 pages)
- File format
- unknown
- Form of item
- online
- Isbn
- 9780816654208
- Level of compression
- unknown
- Media category
- computer
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- c
- Other physical details
- illustrations, map
- http://library.link/vocab/ext/overdrive/overdriveId
- 22573/cttbj2vg
- Quality assurance targets
- not applicable
- Reformatting quality
- unknown
- Sound
- unknown sound
- Specific material designation
- remote
- System control number
- (OCoLC)182859500
Subject
- American letters
- American letters -- Rocky Mountains Region
- American letters -- West (U.S.)
- HISTORY -- State & Local
- HISTORY -- United States -- State & Local | West (AK, CA, CO, HI, ID, MT, NV, UT, WY)
- History
- Immigrants
- Immigrants -- Rocky Mountains Region -- Correspondence
- Immigrants -- West (U.S.) -- Correspondence
- Letter writing
- Letter writing -- Rocky Mountains Region -- History
- Letter writing -- West (U.S.) -- History
- Personal correspondence
- Rocky Mountains Region
- Rocky Mountains Region -- Social life and customs
- Swedish Americans
- Swedish Americans -- Rocky Mountains Region -- Correspondence
- Swedish Americans -- West (U.S.) -- Correspondence
- West (U.S.) -- Social life and customs
- West United States
- Manners and customs
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