Rev. date: 2/2020. Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
Part I. Migrations and transplantings: Chapter 1. From the Netherlands to Marion County: establishing the Dutch presence in Iowa; Chapter 2. Continuity and change among the Pella Dutch: growing a thriving community; Chapter 3. The interlude of the Civil War and its reverberations: Out-Migration and repatriation among the Pella Dutch during the 1860s, Appendix A: Dutch Civil War volunteers from the Pella Enclave; Chapter 4. Colonizing in Sioux County, Part 1: Forming the enclave in Northwest Iowa, 1869-1880, Appendix B: The Dutch pioneers of 1870; Chapter 5. Colonizing in Sioux County, Part II: Evolving into a complete community; Chapter 6. Dutch settlement in Douglas County, South Dakota: Pioneering and prevailing during the first 20 years -- Part II. Two personal accounts: Chapter 7. The personal account of one Dutch immigrant's success story: E.J.G. Bloemendaal's sojourns and settlement in Northwest Iowa; Chapter 8. Another personal account of one Frisian farm family in the Missouri Valley: a biographical sketch of Ulbe and Maaike Eringa.
Summary:
"This narrative describes the transoceanic and internal migration pattern and resulting settlements across the Midwestern grasslands by Dutch immigrants in the nineteenth century. The transplantation process involved repeated pioneering and community formation that exhibited persistent culture transfer and ethnic identity, even as necessary adaptations occurred because of environmental imperatives and contextual change. The Dutch settlers maintained highly recognizable enclaves in Marion and Sioux counties in Iowa and in Douglas and Bon Homme counties in South Dakota. This study retells their history with fresh insights into precise configurations of the colonies with demographic specificity and discussion of economic pursuits and social attributes. Special attention focuses on agricultural developments in the emerging Corn Belt. The book includes two biographical accounts of individual immigrants that provide concrete examples to flesh out the larger portrait of the migration and resettlement experience." (from cover).
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