Before the turn of the twentieth century, many Swedish men emigrated to the American Rockies as itinerant laborers, drawn by the region’s developing industries. Single Swedish women ventured we
In Pole Raising and Speech Making, author Jennifer Eastman Attebery focuses on the beginnings of the traditional Scandinavian Midsummer celebration and the surrounding spring-to-summer seasonal festiv
Explores the myth of the log cabin in the context of the larger myth of the Frontier West. Attebery (English, Idaho State U.) argues that scholars interested in understanding log construction must se
