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THE PANTAGfiAPH. SUNDAY. MARCH 11. 1984 B3 1- "wpo Tube," lea Fnroi 3. "Ala Aide, a Immigration research leads to second book 4.

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I Dea Knew Hew to Ad." Robert OuexW This entire region was the reception area for an enormous influx of peoples in those decades Just before the Civil War," Wyman said. "Not only were there Irish and Germans, but there were Urge numbers of Southerners. Easterners and New Engenders. And they arrived in this "Great Valley' las it was then calledi in conjunction with the most heated, fervent reform epoch the nation has ever known." Thousands of newcomers from Ireland, Germany and previously settled regions of America flocked into the Upper Mississippi country in the decades leading up to the Civil War. Their interactions, which inevitably erupted into conflict, are explored by Illinois State University historian Mark Wyman in his new book, "Immigrants in the Valley." The 228-page book is subtitled "Irish, Germans and Americans in the Upper Mississippi Country, 1830-1860." The publisher is Nelson-Hall of Chicago.

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"Lines and Shade wi," Joseph Wambaugh 6. "Weight Watchers' Fast and Fabulous Cookbook" Time Magazine These diverse groups frequently clashed over such issues as drinking, public schools and the proper observance of the Sabbath. What one group considered a basic right, another considered it a sin. Anti-slavery was a small cause until about 1854, and so receives relatively little attention in this volume. In many ways, the slavery issue was less divisive than the others.

Because the workers left few of their own records, much of Wyman's information came from people who saw the immigrants company agents, public authorities, journalists and travelers. "The historical records of the era are full of the disputes," said Wyman, who found references in newspapers, railroad and canal company records, church minutes and or The book is Wyman's second. His first, published in 1979, was "Hard Rock Epic Western Miners and the Industrial Revolution, 1860-1910." He is currently working on a book about displaced persons (European refugees following World War ID, a topic inspired by his research in Europe for his book on the Upper Mississippi settlers. When Wyman began his new-book several years ago, he ex-pected to write about the Irish laborers who built Illinois' canals and railroads. His research quickly led him to expand the topic to include Missouri, Iowa, Minnesota and Wisconsin.

Mark Wyman Ireland and Germany and found some letters sent back from the Midwestern states, as well as newspaper accounts. Wyman's project was supported in part by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities, and by a sabbatical leave from 1SU. A former labor reporter for the Minneapolis Tribune, Wyman has been on the 1SU history faculty since 1971. He attended college at River Falls (Wis.) State College in his hometown, and then received a bachelor's degree in Journalism from the University of Wisconsin at Madison in 1960. He was awarded a master's degree in political science from Wisconsin in 1966, and a doctorate in history from the University of Washington at Seattle in 1971.

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