Norwegian immigration to LaSalle County and beyond
(2014)
Nonfiction
Book
Call Numbers:
Local History/Genealogy/977.3270043982/JOHNSON,D
Availability
Details
PUBLISHED
[Place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified], [2014?]
DESCRIPTION
98 pages : illustrations, maps ; 22 cm
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES
Norway background -- Why did they come? -- Welcome to New York -- Home in Illinois -- America fever and the Sloopers -- Settlement beyond LaSalle County -- Slooper sons and daughters -- Norsk Museum
The author chronicles the geography and the reasons for the Norwegian migration to LaSalle County, Illinois, beginning with the first pioneer group known as "Sloopers" and continuing on through the settlers' lives in the area surrounding the Fox River, known today as Norway, Illinois