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Swedish Emigration to America and Oregon after World War II
By Lars Nordström, 2007
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Portland's Swedish-American Community after World War II
By Lars Nordström, 2007
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Winter Crossing
The story of Anna Björkmans emigration
to Oregon in 1890
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Trapped In Oregon
Excerpt from Anton Swanson's Diaries 1908-1911
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Victoria Owenius:
Oregon Posten
The Story of an Immigrant Newspaper
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Vi Gale:
The Immigrant Story Behind the Poetry
An interview with one of Oregon's better known women poets. Portland: Swedish Roots in Oregon, 2001, 28 p.
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Ernst
Skarstedt:
Oregon and its Swedish Population
Excerpt from the book Oregon
och dess Svenska befolkning
originally published in Swedish in Seattle,
1911.
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Martin Peterson:
The Swedes of Yamhill
Martin Peterson’s article “The Swedes of Yamhill” is a
valuable contribution to the Swedish history of Oregon
because it illustrates
how a coherent Swedish farming community happened to come into being in the
1890s
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William Carlson
Smith:
The Swedes of Oregon
This article was originally published by the American Swedish Historical Museum
in Philadelphia in its Year Book for 1946. The author, William Carlson Smith,
Ph.D., was then a professor of sociology at Linfield College, in McMinnville,
Oregon. He was born of Swedish immigrant parents in Minnesota and spent his
early years on a farm in a Swedish community at Oakland, Nebraska.
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Samuel
Magnus Hill, Swedish Educator,
Poet and Minister
by James I Dowie and Lars Nordström
This biographical portrait of Samuel Magnus Hill, written by
James Iverne Dowie and originally included as two separate chapters in his
doctoral thesis (later published as Prairie Grass Dividing in 1959), describes
Hill’s life from his arrival in the United States in 1868 to his move to Oregon
in 1915
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Diary Kept on the Journey to America 1868
by Samuel Magnus Hill
During the summer of 1914, the year before he moved to Oregon,
Samuel Magnus Hill started spending a great deal of time in front of his Swedish
typewriter. He typed up a large stack of old letters to and from relatives and
friends in Sweden and the United States,
and he cleaned up the diary he had kept
during the family’s emigration in 1868
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