Book Review: Icelanders in North America: The First Settlers

Authors

Gudren Björk Gudsteins, University of Iceland

Date of this Version

2004

Document Type

Article

Comments

Published in Great Plains Quarterly 24:1 (Winter 2004). Copyright © 2004 Center for Great Plains Studies, University of Nebraska–Lincoln.

Abstract

Jonas Thor's study offers an excellent view into the background and development of Icelandic migration to the West, briefly outlining immigration to Utah in the 1850s and Brazil in the 1860-70s, but primarily focusing on mass migration from 1870 to 1914 to and within the North American prairies, and gravitating to the west coast.