Excerpt from Danish-American Life and Letters: A Bibliography The immigrant was usually too busy living, and making a living, to compile and to preserve historical information con cerning. Himself. Children and grandchildren of the immigrant are beginning. Now to reveal a growing interest in the westward movement of their ancestors, and historians have long since recognized the importance of that period in American history which between 1815 and 1914 added to our population thirty five million Europeans. Professor Marcus Lee Hansen, the late, brilliant historian of the immigrant, suggests as the first step in mining this rich field of information that a survey be made to locate the raw materials. To make such a survey of that segment of immigration which deals with the Danish Americans is the aim of this bibliography. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.