 | Up in the Rocky Mountains: Writing the Swedish Immigrant Experience 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.) -- Histor; Jennifer Eastman Attebery offers a new perspective on Swedish immigrantso experiences in Idaho, Montana, Utah, Wyoming, Colorado, and New Mexico from 1880 to 1917 by interpreting their letters home. Recognizing the letterso power as a folk form, Attebery provides a model for discerning immigrantso shared culture in correspondence collections and brings to life small Swedish communities throughout the Rocky Mountain region." |
