New Land, New Lives: Scandinavian Immigrants to the Pacific Northwest

""Because I am a Dane and have gone to folk schools, I think I am a better American.""--""All my life, I've been eating rye bread."" -- ""I have my language from Norway, and my tradition."" -- MAP -- APPENDIX: INTERVIEW QUESTIONNAIRE -- BIBLIOGRAPHY ""Everybody's gonna eat and everybody's gonna wear clothes.""--Part Four / New Lives: Family -- ""The women had their babies at home."" -- ""I started out just like the pioneers did in the wild timbers."" -- ""Dad needed someone to stay home."" -- ""You're gonna go to school, if I can help it."" -- ""There is nobody that can take a mother's place."" -- ""I saw the little, beautiful girl and I was happy and satisfied."" -- Part Five / New Lives: Tradition -- ""We had the Iceland library in our home."" -- ""It was just like getting a letter from home."" -- ""Everybody were your friends ""I'm not going to freeze for five dollars a month in Minnesota.""--""A lady from the YWCA met us and she talked Swedish."" -- Part Three / New Lives: Work -- ""Butter on the bread."" -- ""I worked for wealthy people, that's for sure."" -- ""It's hard to be put down."" -- ""I was with the worst-gamblers, prostitutes, everything you could think of."" -- ""They like Finnish girls."" -- ""We sold fresh-churned butter right out of the churn."" -- ""I have put in seventy years on boats."" -- ""I never did like housework."" -- ""We haven't got a tailor between 23rd and East Madison Part 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 Cover -- CONTENTS -- FOREWORD -- PREFACE -- INTRODUCTION -- Part One / Homeland -- ""I couldn't see over the mountains.""--""We never knew what real medicine was."" -- ""I get so lonesome for Finland."" -- ""When I was a child, we ate out of a common big dish."" -- ""He slipped out of the country."" -- ""We were raised like regular puritans."" -- ""Home you had plenty to eat, but there was no cash."" -- ""We had to find out for ourselves how to make things go."" -- ""Up in the north, they believe in trolls."" -- ""I have such good memories of Christmas Eve."" -- ""When peace broke out… (more)