From Praha to Prague: Czechs in an Oklahoma Farm Town

by Philip D. Smith

Book Overview

Around the turn of the twentieth century, thousands of Czechs left their homelands in Bohemia and Moravia and came to the United States. While many settled in major American cities, others headed to rural areas out west where they could claim their own land for farming. In From Praha to Prague, Philip D. Smith examines how the Czechs who founded and settled in Prague, Oklahoma, embraced the economic and cultural activities of their American hometown...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0806157461
• ISBN13: 9780806157467
• Release Date: October 2017
• Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
• Length: 218 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.4" x 9.1"