They Came from Sweden

Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company. Very Good+ in Very Good dj. 1942. First Edition. Hardcover. (price-clipped) [minor wear to extremities, light dust-soiling to top of text block; the jacket is modestly edgeworn (mostly along the top edge) and a bit faded at the spine]. (line drawings) The saga of "the Larsson family, Gustaf, his brother and sister, young uncle, and mother and father, [who] came from a tenant farm in Sweden in 1856, when America was 'the land of opportunity' and when anyone who settled west of the Mississippi was a frontiersman. Homesteading first in Wisconsin, then in Minnesota, the Larssons found plenty of exciting adventures, hard work, and fun." Per the jacket copy, this was to be the first in a series of books by this author "designed to interest and aid young Americans in understanding the background of young Europeans whose families have come to live in this country," and indeed she seems to have followed through, producing at least five more books of this nature, focusing on immigrants from France, Scotland, Ireland, Dalmatia, and Bohemia; she was also a prolific author of biographies of prominent Americans, for juvenile readers. ("They Came from Sweden" was reprinted in 1957 under the title "Sod-House Winter" by Follett Publishing Co.) ***This book is among the nearly 150 items offered in ReadInk's new Catalog Number 4, "Booking Passage: Books on the Immigrant Experience." You can access this catalog and its contents in any one of three ways: (1) email us to request a PDF to be emailed to you; (2) view or download the catalog from the link on our website's main page; (3) browse the books individually (including a few that didn't make the cut for the catalog) on our website under these two subject headings: "Immigration: Fiction" and "Immigration: Non-fiction." .