Iowa Letters: Dutch Immigrants on the American FrontierStellingwerff (Free U. of Amsterdam) and Swierenga (history, Hope College, Holland) present an expanded edition of the original Dutch text published under the title Amsterdamse Emigranten (Buijten & Schipperheijn, 1976). The text features some 215 immigrant letters relating to the midwestern frontier, from archives and private holdings on both side |
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Contents
G H Overkamp | 38 |
Wormser Letters 116 Budde Letters 15 | 43 |
Netherlands Steamboat Company advertisement | 44 |
Copyright | |
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| Title | Iowa Letters: Dutch Immigrants on the American Frontier Historical Series of the Refor Issue 47 of Historical series of the Reformed Church in America |
| Author | Johannes Stellingwerff |
| Editor | Robert P. Swierenga |
| Translated by | Walter Lagerwey |
| Edition | illustrated |
| Publisher | Wiliam B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 2004 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | Sep 24, 2008 |
| ISBN | 0802826687, 9780802826688 |
| Length | 701 pages |
| Subjects | › › › Biography & Autobiography / Historical History / United States / State & Local / Midwest (IA, IL, IN, KS, MI, MN, MO, ND, NE, OH, SD, WI) Religion / Christianity / History |
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