Stockholm on the Rio Grande

A Swedish Farming Colony on the Mesquite Frontier of Southernmost Texas (1912-1985)

Häftad, Engelska, 2003

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Stockholm, Texas, was an early twentieth century Swedish colony in the Lower Rio Grande Valley of Texas. The topic provides a fascinating micro-history of culture contacts, acculturation, and economic development in a frontier setting. The Swedish colony represented an island of Scandinavian culture in a predominately Hispanic area that was in the process of colonization by Anglo-Americans from the north. The story of Stockholm, Texas, is a case history of the impact on a small rural community of the mechanization and commercialization of American agriculture.

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Utgivningsdatum2003-04-21
Mått135 x 216 x 15 mm
Vikt313 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor268
FörlagUniversity Press of America
ISBN9780761825357

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Chapter 1 List of IllustrationsChapter 2 PrefaceChapter 3 Background: Introduction; Swedish Migration to America; Crossing the Atlantic; Earlier Swedish Immigration to Texas; NotesChapter 4 Creating a Swedish Colony on the Mesquite Frontier: The Historical Setting; Founding the Turner Tract Colony; Developing the Stockholm Area; Motives for Moving to South Texas; NotesChapter 5 Church and School: The Religious Heritage in Sweden and America; Religion in the Turner Tract: Unity and Schism; Stockholm's Mission Church; The Stockholm School; Special Celebrations, Holidays, and Picnics; Secession of the Swedish Methodists and LChapter 6 Adapting to a New Land: Language Use in the Swedish Colony; Floods, Hurricanes, and Other Natural Disasters; Mexican Bandits; The Stockholm Cemetery; NotesChapter 7 Loss of Identity, and Disintegration: Waning Swedishness; Epitaph for a Town that Never Was; Conclusion; NotesChapter 8 Swedes of the Local Colony: Swedish Names in Family History; Directory of Residents, Visitors, and Landowners; NotesChapter 9 Annotated List of SourcesChapter 10 Author Biographical SketchChapter 11 Index