European Immigrants in the American West: Community Histories

by University of New Mexico Center for the American West

Book Overview

During the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, immigrants from Spain, Sweden, Ireland, Italy, Germany, England, and other European countries settled all across the American West. This collection of essays explores the rural and urban settlement patterns of these groups, their comparative histories, and the maintenance of their communities. Europeans came to the West from all directions via both coasts and Mexico. Luebke provides tables illustrating...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0826319920
• ISBN13: 9780826319920
• Release Date: December 1998
• Publisher: University of New Mexico Press
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.0"