Emigrant Paths: Encounters with 20th Century Swiss AmericansThis book features the emigration of 16 Swiss men who left their homeland to pursue their destiny in the United States. The stories highlight the emigrants' world of origin, the contexts of their leaving for America including drawbacks and successes, and their varied experience in, and response to, the United States. The accounts show that these men were guided by personal drive and professional goals as well as by circumstance. Their experience,

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in the early decades of the 1800's and continued to be used during the era of the outhouse

so that these two men are separated and can be easily followed

from a recently-uncovered box of 68 glass negatives bought at a flea market

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and religious values that prevailed

He also writes his columns about holidays

this story takes you to the Valley of the Shadow of Death with stops

you too can learn to turn even your most trying times into spiritual stepping-stones