{"product_id":"up-in-the-rocky-mountains-jennifer-eastman-attebery-9780816647682","title":"Up in the Rocky Mountains: Writing the Swedish Immigrant Experience","description":"\u003cp\u003eBefore the turn of the twentieth century, many Swedish men emigrated to the American Rockies as itinerant laborers, drawn by the region's developing industries. Single Swedish women ventured west, too, and whole families migrated, settling into farm communities. By 1920, one-fifth of all Swedish immigrants were living in the West.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eUp in the Rocky Mountains, \u003c\/i\u003e Jennifer Eastman Attebery offers a new perspective on Swedish immigrants' experiences in Idaho, Montana, Utah, Wyoming, Colorado, and New Mexico from 1880 to 1917 by interpreting their letters home. Considering more than three hundred letters, Attebery analyzes their storytelling, repetitive language, traditional phrasing, and metaphoric images. Recognizing the letters' power as a folk form, Attebery sees in them the writers' relationships back in Sweden as well as their encounters with religious and labor movements, regionalism, and nationalism in their new country.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBy defining personal letters as a vernacular genre, Attebery provides a model for discerning immigrants' shared culture in correspondence collections. By studying their words, she brings to life small Swedish communities throughout the Rocky Mountain region.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eJennifer Eastman Attebery is professor of English and director of American studies at Idaho State University.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Jennifer Eastman Attebery\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0816647682\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780816647682\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Minnesota Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/01\/2007\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 320\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.94lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.98h x 6.00w x 0.78d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eReference and Research Bk News\u003c\/i\u003e 11\/01\/2007 pg. 70","brand":"Jennifer Eastman Attebery","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43926484910335,"sku":"9780816647682","price":25.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/products\/img_9423eaff-e586-4e13-b20c-bd42c87f9ad5.jpg?v=1681083331","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/up-in-the-rocky-mountains-jennifer-eastman-attebery-9780816647682","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}