Table of Contents

Chapter 1 List of Illustrations Chapter 2 Preface Chapter 3 Background: Introduction; Swedish Migration to America; Crossing the Atlantic; Earlier Swedish Immigration to Texas; Notes Chapter 4 Creating a Swedish Colony on the Mesquite Frontier: The Historical Setting; Founding the Turner Tract Colony; Developing the Stockholm Area; Motives for Moving to South Texas; Notes Chapter 5 Church and School: The Religious Heritage in Sweden and America; Religion in the Turner Tract: Unity and Schism; Stockholm's Mission Church; The Stockholm School; Special Celebrations, Holidays, and Picnics; Secession of the Swedish Methodists and L Chapter 6 Adapting to a New Land: Language Use in the Swedish Colony; Floods, Hurricanes, and Other Natural Disasters; Mexican Bandits; The Stockholm Cemetery; Notes Chapter 7 Loss of Identity, and Disintegration: Waning Swedishness; Epitaph for a Town that Never Was; Conclusion; Notes Chapter 8 Swedes of the Local Colony: Swedish Names in Family History; Directory of Residents, Visitors, and Landowners; Notes Chapter 9 Annotated List of Sources Chapter 10 Author Biographical Sketch Chapter 11 Index