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Title: Letters of a German American Farmer: Jurnjakob Swehn Travels to America by Johannes Gillhoff, Richard Lorenz August Trost ISBN: 0-87745-706-9 Publisher: University of Iowa Press Pub. Date: July, 2000 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $17.95

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Average Customer Rating: 5 (1 review)

Rating: 5
Summary: The Immigrant's Experience - A good life
Comment: I first read this book almost fifty years ago as a teenager. A friend had given a copy to my father as a going away present, when he set out to emigrate to America. Even though my parents were much too late to homestead or farm, this story gave me a clear understanding of the promise of America for the immigrant. The hero of the narrative is a poor day laborer's child on one of the large estates of the Kaiser's Germany. He grows up in a one room cabin, which is shared by the livestock, if any. As a teen he emigrates to America.

He does not find the streets paved with gold. Life is never easy. A son almost dies of diphtheria. Home made carts set to run on the rails, are demolished by trains. Bad years come after good. Hired help is difficult to find. But with hard work, honesty, a devoted wife, and time he builds a good life, a family and farm in Iowa. Nothing like this would have been possible at home.

Richard Trost has given us a clear translation, which lovingly reflects the idealism of the original. He also has given careful attention to Americanizing the frequent north German dialect expressions of the original. Anyone who is interested in the immigrant experience will find this book a must reading. It is also a very enjoyable story.

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