Severed ties and silenced voices : separation and social adaptation in two Swedish immigrant families
Table of Contents
Preface -- Introduction -- Chapter I: The emigrants' dilemma -- Chapter II: The Värmland background -- Chapter III: Anders Johannesson: The Halland beginnings -- Chapter IV: Settling in: Kansas Lake -- Chapter V: Lars and Caroline at Kansas Lake -- Chapter VI: Conflict -- Chapter VII: Missing Lars -- Chapter VIII: New problems -- Chapter IX: Finding Lars -- Chapter X: Early trial reports -- Chapter XI: On trial -- Chapter XII: The verdict -- Chapter XIII: The response -- Chapter XIV: At Stillwater prison -- Chapter XV: Caroline: a riddle -- Chapter XVI: Veinge revisited -- Chapter XVII: In a new world -- Chapter XVIII: Facing freedom -- Chapter XIX: Caroline in Wisconsin: reinventing her history -- Chapter XX: Returning home -- Chapter XXI: Moving on -- Chapter XXII: A new life -- Chapter XXIII: The waning years -- Chapter XXIV: The pioneer past -- Chapter XXV: The legacy -- Postscript -- Endnotes -- Bibliography -- Photos and illustrations.
Dates
- Copyright: 2008
Creator
- McKnight, Roger, 1937- (Author, Person)
Conditions Governing Use
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Extent
1 Volumes : Paperback; photos, maps
Language of Materials
English
Source
- Nordic Studies Press (Publisher, Organization)
- Title
- Severed ties and silenced voices : separation and social adaptation in two Swedish immigrant families
- Status
- Completed
- Date
- 2025-07
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
Repository Details
Part of the Southwest Minnesota Historical Center Repository
Southwest Minnesota State University
McFarland Library
1501 State Street
Marshall MN 56258