Anne Gillespie Lewis
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2004
Physical Desc
ix, 93 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
No ethnic group is so identified with a single state as the Swedes are with Minnesota. From before statehood, Swedish immigrants flooded into the small frontier towns of St. Paul and Minneapolis. Encouraged by agents who promised inexpensive and fertile farmland, they came by the thousands. By the turn of the twentieth century, over 126,000 Swedes lived in Minnesota-and their impact on everything in the state continues to today. In this concise history...