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Immigrants' Diaries and Letters

The Whiskey Merchant's Diary by Joseph J. Mersman; Linda A. Fisher (Editor)
Call Number: 973.0431 M556w
Joseph J. Mersman was a German American immigrant who aspired -- successfully -- to become a self-made man. His diary was started in 1847 and is filled with work and play, eating and drinking, flirting and dancing. It provides a unique picture of everyday life, first in Cincinnati and then in St. Louis.
News from the Land of Freedom: German immigrants write home by Walter D. Kamphoefner (Editor); Wolgang Helbich (Editor); Ulrike Sommer (Editor); Susan C. Vogel (Translator)
Call Number: 973.0431 N474
Publication Date: 1991-10-30
Lives and Letters of an Immigrant Family: the van Dreveldts' experiences along the Missouri, 1844-1866 by Kenneth Kronenberg (Translator); Carl von Gimborn (Contribution by)
Call Number: 978 K923l

Journeys to the land of gold : emigrant diaries from the Bozeman Trail, 1863-1866
978.02 J826

An English settler in pioneer Wisconsin : the letters of Edwin Bottomley, 1842-1850 by Edwin Bottomley, Milo Milton Quaife (Editor.)
Call Number: 977.5 W753co 25
Publication Date: 1918.
Letters from an English immigrant, Edwin Bottomley (1809-1850), written between 1842 and 1850 to his father, Captain Thomas Bottomley.
The Diary of Elisabeth Koren, 1853-1855 by David T. Nelson (Editor)
Call Number: 977.7 K84E N
Publication Date: 1994
Hold Dear, As Always: Jette, a German immigrant life in letters by Adolf E. Schroeder (Editor); Carla Schulz-Geisberg (Editor)
Call Number: 977.8 H71
Publication Date: 2011
Happy As a Big Sunflower: adventures in the West, 1876-1880 by Rolf Johnson; Richard E. Jensen (Editor, Introduction by)
Call Number: 978.2 J636h
In 1876 Rolf Johnson and his family left Illinois for Phelps County, Nebraska. His departure may have been sparked by the marital fever exhibited by a female suitor. Rolf felt he was "not quite prepared to leave the state of single blessedness for that of double misery." In Sidney, Nebraska, he ran with the "sporting" element.
The Gold Rush Diary of Ramón Gil Navarro by Ramon Gil Navarro; David Reher (Editor, Translator); María del Carmen Ferreyra (Editor, Translator)
Call Number: 979.4 N228g
Publication Date: 2000-10-01
An Argentinean/Chilean experience in Gold Rush California. Ramon Gil Navarro, an Argentinean political exile living in Chile, heard the rumours of a new El Dorado. After three years without success, Navarro returned to South America.