Swedes in Wisconsin

by Frederick Hale

Book Overview

The revised and expanded edition of Frederick Hale's Swedes in Wisconsin begins with the story of the state's first legal Swedish immigrants, a group of six young people and a hunting dog who set sail from G vle, Sweden, in 1841 and established Wisconsin's first Swedish settlement, New Uppsala, along Pine Lake in Waukesha County.
Hale describes the mass emigration from Sweden to the Midwest that began during the late 1860s and fundamentally...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0870203371
• ISBN13: 9780870203374
• Release Date: April 2002
• Publisher: Wisconsin Historical Society Press
• Length: 72 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 6.1" x 9.1"