New Land, New Lives: Scandinavian Immigrants to the Pacific NorthwestPart Two / New Land -- ""We were thinking America in high tones when we saw that Statue of Liberty.""--""I never got into any hand-to-hand fighting and I was glad of it.""--""Did we get to heaven?"" -- ""You just had to trust somebody."" -- ""Finland those days, you never see any black people."" -- ""I got infested with lice."" -- ""We had to start all over again, writing A's and B's."" -- ""The fruit trees were in blossoming white and I thought it was like paradise."" -- ""The sea is where you have to look for a livelihood."" -- ""My first Christmas, I hauled manure on Christmas Day |
Contents
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Henny Hale I couldnt see over the mountains | 21 |
Ina Silverberg I get so lonesome for Finland | 32 |
Sigfrid Ohrt He slipped out of the country | 43 |
Gretchen Yost We had to find out for ourselves how to make things go | 57 |
Elsie Odmark Did we get to heaven? | 109 |
Laura Foss We had to start all over again writing As and Bs | 133 |
Emmy Berg I worked for wealthy people thats for sure | 180 |
Ralph Strom I was with the worstgamblers prostitutes | 189 |
right out of the churn | 199 |
Anton Isaksen I have put in seventy years on boats | 205 |
Christine Emerson Dad needed someone to stay home | 249 |
Anna Johnson There is nobody that can take a mothers place | 260 |
Tradition | 271 |
Julius Tollefson It was just like getting a letter from home | 281 |
Sigvald Stenersen My first Christmas | 151 |
Thorvald Kofoed Im not going to freeze | 157 |
Work | 169 |
Frederik Madsen Because I am a Dane and have gone to folk schools | 292 |
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New Land, New Lives: Scandinavian Immigrants to the Pacific Northwest Janet Elaine Rasmussen No preview available - 1993 |
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