Swedes in Minnesota Gosse Nature Guides ISBN13: 9781602665644

ISBN13: 9781602665644

J William Zoldak was born in the Highlands along the Hudson River in 1943

Charles Coe is the author of two previous volumes of poetry

ISBN13: 9781662805004

Swedes in Minnesota Gosse Nature Guides ISBN13: 9781602665644No ethnic group is so identified with a single state as the Swedes are with Minnesota. From before statehood, Swedish immigrants flooded into the small frontier towns of St. Paul and Minneapolis. Encouraged by agents who promised inexpensive and fertile farmland, they came by the thousands. By the turn of the twentieth century, over 126,000 Swedes lived in Minnesota and their impact on everything in the state continues to today. In this concise