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This CLASSIFIED BIBLIOGRAPHY OF WELSH AMERICANA consists of two parts. Part I is a reprinting of the author's "Classified Bibliography of Writings on the Welsh in America, which appears in his book; "Americans from Wales" (Boston, Christopher Publishing House) 1967 reprinted by Octagon Books, New York, 1978 & again in 1983, pages 225-267, a total of some 475 items. Part II consists of printed & some manuscript entries which have been published since 1967 (the date of the publication of "Americans from Wales"), as well as several entries published prior to 1967 which had escaped the author's attention, a total of 278 items. Readers should be sure to consult both parts. The following libraries have fine collections of Welsh Americana: The National Libraries of Wales, the Library of the Balch Institute of Ethnic Studies, Weidner Library of Harvard University, The New York Public Library, the Library of Congress, Yale University Library, & Utica College Library. The Welsh-American Heritage Museum, Oak Hill, Ohio has many Welsh-American Heritage items of interest. A CLASSIFIED BIBLIOGRAPHY OF WELSH AMERICANA, ISBN 0-9639408-1-3, is avilable from the National Welsh Americana Foundation, 24 Carverton Rd., Trucksville, PA 18708 at $6 per copy plus $1.25 handling & shipping costs.
In 1971, Californian congressman Thomas M. Rees told the US House of Representatives that ‘very little has been written of what the Welsh have contributed in all walks of life in the shaping of American history’. This book is the first systematic attempt to both recount and evaluate the considerable yet undervalued contribution made by Welsh immigrants and their immediate descendants to the development of the United States. Their lives and achievements are set within a narrative outline of American history that emphasises the Welsh influence upon the colonists’ rejection of British rule, and upon the establishment, expansion and industrialisation of the new American nation. This book covers both the famous and the unsung who worked and fought to acquire greater prosperity and freedom for themselves and for their nation.
The Welsh in America was first published in 1961. Minnesota Archive Editions uses digital technology to make long-unavailable books once again accessible, and are published unaltered from the original University of Minnesota Press editions. The Welsh formed a small but significant part of the great migration from Europe to the United States during the nineteenth century. In this volume they tell their own story in letters they wrote from America to their families and friends back home. The letters are highly readable, written, for the most part, in vivid and entertaining style which reveals the Welsh as an unusually literate people. The 197 letters are arranged chronologically and geographically, starting with letters that tell of the voyage across the Atlantic. Once in America, the immigrants described their experiences in the farming country of New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio, and some of the other midwestern states. Later, as the frontier moved west, they wrote of their efforts to establish exclusive Welsh settlements on the Great Plains. From the industrial centers there are letters from coal miners and iron and steel workers. The fortune seekers who went to California in the gold rush or to the mines in Colorado are also represented. Still others tell of their search for salvation in the Mormon Zion of Utah. For each chapter or group of letters Mr. Conway has written an introduction giving the general background of the region or period and relating it to the Welsh settlers. Thus the events chronicled and the views expressed in the letters become significant in the history of the times. The majority of the letters were written in Welsh and they appear here in translation. Some were obtained from the files of old newspapers or denominational magazines; others came from the collections of the National Library of Wales or from individuals.
The Welsh in Iowa is the history of the little known Welsh immigrant communities in the American Midwestern state of Iowa. Dr. Walley’s book identifies what made the Welsh unique as immigrants to North America, and as migrants and settlers in a land built on such groups. With research rooted in documentary evidence and supplemented with community and oral histories, The Welsh in Iowa preserves and examines Welsh culture as it was expressed in middle America by the farmers and coal miners who settled or passed through the prairie state as it grew to maturity in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. This work seeks to not only document the Welsh immigrants who lived in Iowa, but to study the Welsh as a distinct ethnic group in a state known for its ethnic heritage.