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444 APPENDIX A. LIST OF BOOKS.
Woods of Maine, June 25th, 1895 [ed. by S. J. Estes], Portland,
Maine, 1895.
The Story of New Sweden, by Wm. Widgery Thomas, jun.,
in Collections and Proceedings of the Maine Historical Society,
2nd ser., Vol. vii., pp. 53 foil, and 113 foil., Portland, 1896.
[This is written by the founder, who was an U.S.A. consul in
Sweden, and in 1870 collected a small party of fifty-one persons
to settle in his own State, where they have largely prospered on
the banks of the Aroostook. The prevailing religion appears
to have been Baptist. The colony has largely helped the
development of the State of Maine.]
3. SETTLEMENTS IN THE NORTH WEST.
The two most important books on the larger Swedish settle
ments are :
History of the Swedes in Illinois, edited by Ernest W. Olson,
in collaboration with Anders Schon and Martin J. Engberg,
The Engberg-Holmberg Publishing Co., Chicago, two volumes,
1908.
A History of the Swedish Americans of Minnesota, compiled
and edited by A. E. Strand, The Lewis Publishing Company,
Chicago, three volumes, 1910.
More popular is the one volume by Alfred Soderstrom :
Minneapolis Minnen Kulturhistorisk axplockning frdn quarn-
staden vid Mississippi, Minneapolis, 1899.
4. GENERAL DESCRIPTIONS AND POPULAR SKETCHES.
G. F. Peterson :
Sverige i Amerika : Kulturhistoriska och
biografiska teckningar, The Royal Star Co., Chicago, 1898.
O. N. Nelson :
History of the Scandinavians and successful
Scandinavians in the U.S., two volumes, Minneapolis, 1893.
Lars P. Nelson : What has Sweden done for the United
States? Chicago, 1903. [A popular essay on occasion of a
national commemoration, but full of information in a con
venient form.]
Carl Sundbeck :
Svensh-Amerikanerna, Stockholm and Rock
Island, 1904. [Records of a journey undertaken with the sup
port of the Swedish Government, and likely to be useful to
immigrants.]
P. Waldenstrom : Genom Norra Amerikas forenta Stater :
Reseskildningar, Stockholm and Chicago, 1890.
5. RELIGIOUS HISTORY OF THE SWEDES IN U.S.A.
G. Unonius : Minnen frdn en sjuttondrig vistelse i Nordvestra
Amerika (1841-1858), published in 1862, with a Bihang [in
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