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FOREWORD
TABLE OF CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION
CHAPTER I Norway: Population, Resources, Pursuits of her
CHAPTER II Emigration from Norway.
CHAPTER III The Earliest Immigrants from Norway, 1620 to 1825.
CHAPTER IV The Sloopers of 1825. The First Norwegian Settlement in America. Kleng Peerson.
CHAPTER V The Founding of the Fox River Settlement. Personal Notes on Some of the Founders.
CHAPTER VI Causes of Emigration from Norway. General Factors, Economic.
CHAPTER VII Causes of Emigration Continued. Special Factors. Religion as a Cause. Emigration Agents.
CHAPTER VIII Causes of Emigration continued. The Influence of
CHAPTER IX Growth of the Fox River Settlement. The Immigration of 1836. Further Personal Sketches.
CHAPTER X The Year 1837. The Sailing of Aegir.
CHAPTER XI Beaver Creek. Ole Rynning.
CHAPTER XII Some of the Immigrants of 1837. The First Pathfinders from Numedal and Telemarken.
CHAPTER XIII Ansten Nattestad's Return to Norway in 1838. The
CHAPTER XIV Shelby County, Missouri. Ansten Nattestad's Return
CHAPTER XV The Earliest White Settlers on Rock and Jefferson
CHAPTER XVI The Rock Run Settlement. Other Immigrants of 1839. The Immigration of 1840.
CHAPTER XVII The Settlement of Norway and Raymond Townships,
CHAPTER XVIII The Establishment of the Koshkonong Settlement in Dane County, Wisconsin .
CHAPTER XIX The Settling of Koshkonong by Immigrants from
CHAPTER XX New Accessions to the Koshkonong Settlement in 1840
CHAPTER XXI The First Norwegian Settlement in Iowa, at Sugar Creek, in Lee County
CHAPTER XXII The Earliest Norwegian Settlers at Wiota, La
CHAPTER XXIII Growth of the Jefferson Prairie Settlement from
CHAPTER XXIV Immigration to Rock Prairie from Numedal and Land in 1842 and Subsequent Years.
CHAPTER XXV Immigration from Hallingdal, Norway, to Rock
CHAPTER XXVI Economic Conditions of Immigrants. Cost of
CHAPTER XXVII Norwegians in Chicago, 1840 (1845). A Vossing
CHAPTER XXVIII The Earliest Norwegian Settlers in the Township
CHAPTER XXIX The First Norwegian Settlers in the Townships of
CHAPTER XXX The Expansion of the Koshkonong Settlement into
CHAPTER XXXI The Coming of the First Large Party of Immigrants from Sogn. New Accessions from Voss.
CHAPTER XXXII Long Prairie in Boone County, Illinois; a Sogning Settlement.
CHAPTER XXXIII The Growth of the Racine County (Muskego) Settlement, 1843 (1847). Personal Notes.
CHAPTER XXXIV The Heart Prairie Settlement in Walworth County, Wisconsin. Skoponong. Pine Lake.
CHAPTER XXXV The Earliest Norwegian Settlers at Sugar Creek,
CHAPTER XXXVI Continued Immigration from Aurland, Sogn, to
CHAPTER XXXVII "Kirkeregister." Church Register of the East
CHAPTER XXXVIII The Founding of the Norwegian Settlements of
CHAPTER XXXIX Blue Mounds in Western Dane County, Wisconsin
CHAPTER XL The Hardanger Settlement in Lee and De Kalb
CHAPTER XLI The First Norwegian Pioneers in Northeastern Iowa
CHAPTER XLII Survey of Immigration from Norway to America. Conclusion.
Appendices APPENDIX I
APPENDIX II
BIBLIOGRAPHY
INDEX
Footnotes
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