SRIO Booklets

All SRIO Booklets below may be ordered by sending $3.00 per booklet, shipping and handling included.

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    Swedish Roots in Oregon
    8740 SW Oleson Rd.
    Portland, OR 97223

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	Swedish Emigration to America and Oregon after World War II By Lars Nordström, 2007 About This Book Read an Excerpt
	Portland's Swedish-American Community after World War II By Lars Nordström, 2007 About This Book Read an Excerpt
	Winter Crossing The story of Anna Björkmans emigration to Oregon in 1890 About This Book Read an Excerpt
	Trapped In Oregon Excerpt from Anton Swanson's Diaries 1908-1911 About This Book Read an Excerpt
	Victoria Owenius: Oregon Posten The Story of an Immigrant Newspaper About This Book Read an Excerpt
	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. About This Book Read an Excerpt
	Ernst Skarstedt: Oregon and its Swedish Population Excerpt from the book Oregon och dess Svenska befolkning originally published in Swedish in Seattle, 1911. About This Book Read an Excerpt
	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 About this book Read an Excerpt
	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. About this book Read an Excerpt
	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 About this book Read an Excerpt
	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 About this book Read an Excerpt