A Pioneer Churchman: The Narrative and Journal of J.W.C. Dietrichson, 1844-1850
$12.00
In view of the current interest in American ethnic studies and immigrant history the publication of this book possesses more than passing interest. The two documents that make up the major portion of the book were written by J.W.C. Dietrichson, a university educated pioneer minister among Norwegian immigrant communities in northern Illinois and southern Wisconsin at mid-nineteenth century. A notable addition to the growing body of literature about one of the Scandinavian groups that settled in the America Midwest, this book reflects the frontier experience with mirror like candor. Religious, social, political, racial, and economic factors intermingle in the story…
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