Swedes in Wisconsin

Swedes in Wisconsin

$9.95

Swedes in Wisconsin : Revised and Expanded Edition

by: Frederick Hale

In 1841, six young Swedes sailed from Sweden and, by that fall, had established New Uppsala, Wisconsin's first Swedish settlement.  From 1850 through the late 1880s nearly eight thousand Swedes settled in Wisconsin.  This updated editions includes new photos and the selected letters of Swedish novelist Fredrika Bremer, who chronicled her observations and experiences during a tour of Wisconsin in 1850.

Paperback: $9.95

ISBN: 0-87020-337-1

72 pages, b/w photos, 9 x 6 inches

Published by Wisconsin Historical Society Press