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For Ferne Sorenson Gjerde Aurand
Page vii
CONTENTS
Acknowledgments
xi
Introduction
1
Part One. The Region
1. The Prospects of the West: A Promise and a Threat
25
2. The Burden of Their Song: Immigrant Encounters with the Republic
51
Part Two. The Community
3. We'll Meet on Canaan's Land: Patterns of Migration
79
4. You Can't Put All Your Horses in One Corral: Conflict and Community
103
Part Three. The Family
5. Farming Is a Hard Life: Household and the Agricultural Workplace
135
6. A Tale of Two Households: Patterns of Family
159
7. Mothers and Siblings among the Corn Rows: The Individual Life Course and Community Development
187
Part Four. The Society
8. They Soon Abandoned Their Wooden Shoes: Ethnic Group Formation
225
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9. Teach the Children Domestic Economy: Conceptions of Family, Community, and State
251
10. So Great Is Now the Spirit of Foreign Nationality: Late-Nineteenth-Century Political Conflict
283
Epilogue
319
Notes
327
Index
411
Page ix
TABLES AND FIGURES
Tables
3.1 First Place of Residence, Immigrants from Fortun, by Date of Emigration
95
4.1 Patterns of Intermarriage within Crow River's Regional Subcommunities, 18581899
121
7.1 Household Size by Age and Parentage of Household Head, Wisconsin, 1905
190
7.2 Children Ever Born by Parentage in 1900 to Married Women Born 1855 or Before
191
7.3 Differential Fertility between Immigrants and the Native-Born, 1900 and 1910
192
7.4 Indirect Mean Age at Marriage for Women by Background and Generation, Two Datasets Based on 1900 Federal Census
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