Swedes in Wisconsin
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The revised and expanded edition of Frederick Hale's Swedes in Wisconsin begins with the story of the state's first legal Swedish immigrants, a group of six young people and a hunting dog who set sail from G vle, Sweden, in 1841 and established Wisconsin's first Swedish settlement, New Uppsala, along Pine Lake in Waukesha County.
Hale describes the mass emigration from Sweden to the Midwest that began during the late 1860s and fundamentally...
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0870203371
ISBN13:9780870203374
Release Date:April 2002
Publisher:Wisconsin Historical Society Press
Length:72 Pages
Weight:1.10 lbs.
Dimensions:0.2" x 6.1" x 9.1"
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