Lots and lots of information on the Internet!

From a small book,  found in books from Daisy Samuelson's house, "Swedish America, An Introduction" by Nils Hasselmo, I found this information:

One of the ads in Sweden about land in Minnesota for those emigrating from Sweden

There is more information about Nils Hasselmo here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nils_Hasselmo

Swedish migration to America peaked between 1881 and 1890 when almost 325,000 emigrated.

12,105 left Dalarna, where the Lundwalls came from during that same period.

5,843 left Gävleborg County where the Ekquist family came from between 1881 and 1890.

Up until 1890, more than 3 times as many Swedish immigrants came from farms than from urban areas.

Swedish-American religious organizations included the Augustana Synod of the Lutheran Church, The Swedish Mission Covenant, Swedish Methodist and Baptist “conferences,” “Sedish” activities within the American Episcopal Church, the “Swedish” corps of the Salvation Army, and the Swedish Free Church.

I went to the internet and found the following:

Information of the Swedes in the Upper Peninsula can be found here:

            http://voices.nmu.edu/content.asp?PageName=Swedes

For more background on the Upper Peninsula, go here:

            http://www.smithsonianmag.com/travel/The-Wonderful-Wilderness-of-Michigans-Upper-Peninsula.html?c=y&page=4

Wikipedia has some fun information about the U.P. as well:

            http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Upper_Peninsula_of_Michigan

Princeton University has more information about the Finnish and Swedish in the U.P.:

http://www.princeton.edu/~achaney/tmve/wiki100k/docs/Upper_Peninsula_of_Michigan.html

Information on Copper Country Ghost Towns can be found here:

http://www.exploringthenorth.com/ghost/towns.html

Ken Anderson grew up in the Upper Peninsula believing that pasties were a Swedish thing:

http://kenanderson.net/pasties/michigan.html

Another interesting article is about the Finnish people in the U.P.’

http://www.folkstreams.net/context,127

Part 1 of Ralph Hoaglund’s book that much of the early information on Homestead came from is also on line here.

http://genealogytrails.com/wis/florence/homesteadhoaglund.htm