They Chose Minnesota: A Survey of the State's Ethnic Groups

by June Drenning Holmquist

Book Overview

Why did emigrants leave their homeland and move to Minnesota? Where in the state did they settle? What did they do, and how did they organize? How did they maintain their ethnicity? Based on ground-breaking research. Each chapter of "They Chose Minnesota" describes the unique concerns of individual groups and delves into personal stories. Farmers and factory workers, men, women, and children, families and single people, idealists and pragmatists,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0873511557
• ISBN13: 9780873511551
• Release Date: January 1981
• Publisher: Minnesota Historical Society Pr
• Length: 614 Pages
• Weight: 3.95 lbs.