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Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Lur Publications, Dana College, Blair, NE. 1996. Softcover/ Trade Wraps. Stated First Edition. Signed by the editor on the title page. Book is tight, square, and unmarked. Book Condition: Very Good; light bumping to tail and tips; waving of the fore edge of the front wrap from page flipping. No DJ. Pictorial card stock wraps. Wraps are not bent or folded; spine is not creased or split; text is secure in binding. 119 pp 4to. This book presents the first fruits of the largest collection of family correspondence know to American immigration scholarship. Photographs show the writers and the character of the writers comes from the letters; longing for Denmark, energetic daughters, narrative skills, attitudes toward America from Back in Denmark. The letters sketch the daily activities of pioneer farm women, railroads, rural schools, prices, immigrant publications, the Inner Mission, the Panic of 1893, and the Spanish-American War. A clean presentable copy. Signed by others involved with.…