Dannebrog on the American Prairie
Subtitle: a Danish colony project in the 1870s : land purchase and the beginnings of a town
By: Torben Grøngaard Jeppesen ; translated by James D. Iverson.
Contributors: Odense bys museer.; Odense universitet.
Publisher: Odense City Museums; distributed by Odense University Press
Published: 2000
Place of publication: Odense
Language: eng
Number of pages: 288
Subjects: Danish Americans -- History; Danes -- United States -- History; Dannebrog (Neb.) -- History; Denmark -- Emigration and immigration -- History; United States -- Emigration and immigration -- History; Howard County (Neb.) -- Colonization
Work titles: Dannebrog på den amerikanske prærie.
Description: "With this book on the origins of a Danish colony the focus is set on how Danish settlers established themselves in the American society. The colony 'Dannebrog' in Nebraska was founded in 1871 by a group of immigrants who some years earlier had settled down in Wisconsin." "By organizing The Danish Land and Homestead Company they set the goal farther west to build a large Danish colony comprising farmland as well as a real town. The book describes and analyzes specific details including the many difficulties and with strong competition for the acquisition of a continuous area of land and the foundation of a vigorous town. Laws, statutes, political structures, economics and labor- and trade organizations were completely different from Denmark. The realization of the dream required the ability to quickly gain insight into the new society and to become a part of it. In return the immigrants with their Danish roots and values could then be successful at forming a new society on the American prairie."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 282-288).