Author: Gillhoff, Johannes, translated by Richard Lorenz August Trost,
Title: Letters of a German American Farmer: Jurnhakob Swehn travels to America.
Description: Iowa City, Univ of Iowa Press, (2000). VG PB. Archetypal character Swehn, the upright honest mensch who personified the German public. This farmer hero planting and. harvesting his Iowa acres, joking with his neighbors during the snowy winters, building a church with his own hands, gives readers a sense of the perils and pleasures of immigrant life a century ago.

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