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Westward the Immigrants : Italian title: Adventurers and Colonists in an Expanding America author: Rolle, Andrew F. publisher: University Press of Colorado isbn10 | asin: print isbn13: 9780870815294 ebook isbn13: 9780585104591 language: English Italian Americans--West (U.S.)--History, Immigrants--West (U.S.)--History, Frontier subject and pioneer life--West (U.S.) , West (U.S.)-- History, West (U.S.)--Ethnic relations, Migration, Internal--United States--History. publication date: 1999 lcc: F596.3.I8R65 1999eb ddc: 978/.00451 Italian Americans--West (U.S.)--History, Immigrants--West (U.S.)--History, Frontier subject: and pioneer life--West (U.S.) , West (U.S.)-- History, West (U.S.)--Ethnic relations, Migration, Internal--United States--History. Page i Westward the Immigrants Page ii By Andrew Rolle Riviera Path (Verona, Italy, 1948) An American in California: The Biography of William Heath Davis (San Marino, 1956) The Road to Virginia City: The Diary of James Knox Polk Miller (editor) (Norman, 1960) Lincoln, a Contemporary Portrait (with Allan Nevins and Irving Stone) (New York, 1962) Occidental College: The First Seventy-Five Years (Los Angeles, 1962) California: A History (New York, 1963) California: A Students' Guide to Localized History (New York, 1964) A Century of Dishonor: The Early Crusade for Indian Reform (editor) By Helen Hunt Jackson (New York, 1965) The Lost Cause: The Confederate Exodus to Mexico (Norman, 1965) Los Angeles: A Students' Guide to Localized History (New York, 1965) Westward the Immigrants: Italian Adventurers and Colonists in a Expanding America (Boulder, 1999) (formerly titled: The Immigrant Upraised] Page iii Westward the Immigrants Italian Adventurers and Colonists in an Expanding America Andrew Rolle WITH A FOREWORD BY RAY ALLEN BILLINGTON University Press of Colorado Page iv Copyright © 1999 by the University Press of Colorado International Standard Book Number 0-87081-529-6 Formerly published as The Immigrant Upraised by University of Oklahoma Press in 1968. Published by the University Press of Colorado P.O. Box 849 Niwot, Colorado 80544 All rights reserved. Printed in the United States of America. The University Press of Colorado is a cooperative publishing enterprise supported, in part, by Adams State College, Colorado State University, Fort Lewis College, Mesa State College, Metropolitan State College of Denver, University of Colorado, University of Northern Colorado, University of Southern Colorado, and Western State College of Colorado. The paper used in this publication meets the minimum requirements of the American National Standard for Information SciencesPermanence of Paper for Printed Library Materials. ANSI Z39.48-1984 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Rolle, Andrew F. [Immigrant upraised] Westward the immigrants: Italian adventurers and colonists in an expanding America/Andrew Rolle: with a new preface. p. cm. Originally published: The immigrant upraised. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1968. Includes bibliographical references (p.) and index. ISBN 0-87081-529-6 (alk. paper) 1. Italian AmericansWest (U.S.)History. 2. ImmigrantsWest (U.S.)History. 3. Frontier and pioneer life West (U.S.) 4. West (U.S.)History. 5. West (U.S.)Ethnic relations. 6. Migration, InternalUnited StatesHistory. 1. Title. F596.3.18R65 1999 978'.00451dc21 99-41007 CIP 08 07 06 05 04 03 02 01 00 99 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 Cover photograph: Three little Italian girls under an umbrella at Ouray, Colorado, in 1898. Courtesy The Huntington Library. Page v Ad familiam meam Page vii CONTENTS List of Illustrations ix Preface to the 1999 Paperback Edition xi Foreward xxix by Ray Allen Billington Acknowledgements xxxiii Introduction 3 OneOld World and New I Why They Left: The European Background 19 TwoThe Explorer-Pioneers II From Exploration to Migration 45 III Journey to the West: Settlement in the Northern and 59 Southern Mississippi Valley ThreeAcculturative Problems IV Accusations: Discrimination and Criminality 89 V "Be Patient with Us": The Italian on the Land 110 FourItaly Out West VI Travels to "II Grande Far Ouest" 129 VII Onto the Prairies and Beyond 150 VIII High in the Sky: Colorado 169

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Here is a colourful alternative to the view that America's immigrants were uprooted, defenceless pawns adrift in a sea of confusion and despair. Taking the members of one nationality as a prototype, Westward the Immigrants (originally published as The Immigrants Upraised) traces the social, politica
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