On the Bishop Hill colony, the best authorities are: Michael A. Mikkelsen, _The Bishop Hill Colony, a religious communistic Settlement in Henry County, Illinois_ (_Johns Hopkins University Studies_, X, No. 1, 1892)--the most convenient work in English, based almost entirely on Norelius, and on Johnson and Peterson, _Svenskarne i Illinois_, Johnson being a son of the founder, Eric Janson; Emil Herlenius, _Erik-Jansismens Historia ett Bidrag till Kännedomen om det Svenska Sektväsendet_ (Jönköping, 1900); _History of Henry County, Illinois_ (1877); _Erick Jansismen i Nord Amerika_ (Gefle, 1845); Hiram Bigelow, _The Bishop Hill Colony_ (No. 7 of the _Publications of the Illinois State Historical Library_, 1902); W. A. Hinds, _American Communities_ (1902). SELECT ARTICLES IN PERIODICALS Articles in periodicals: R. B. Anderson, "Norwegian Immigration," "The Coming of the Danes," "Icelandic Immigration," _Chicago Record Herald_ (June 19, 26, July 24, Aug. 21, 1901); K. C. Babcock, "The Scandinavians in the Northwest," _Forum_, XIV (1892), "The Scandinavian Contingent," _Atlantic_, LXVII (1896), "The Scandinavian Element in American Population", _American Historical Review_, XVI (1911); H. H. Boyesen, "Norse Americans," _The American_, I (1880), "The Scandinavians in the United States," _North American Review_, CLV (1892); G. T. Flam, "The Scandinavian Factor in the American Population," _Iowa Journal of History and Politics_, III (1905), and (in Norwegian translation) in _Vor Tid_, I (1905); A. H. Hyde, "The Foreign Element in American Civilization," _Popular Science Mo._, LII (1898); Luth Jæger, "The Scandinavian Element in the United States," _The North_, June, 1889,--with many other similar discussions in the same weekly paper, all of them excellent; Kristofer Janson, "Norsemen in the United States," _Cosmopolitan_, IX (1890); Axel Jarlson, "A Swedish Emigrant's Story," _Independent_, LV (1903); F. H. B. MacDowell, "The Newer Scandinavian--a Sketch of the Growth and Progress of the Scandinavian Races in America," _Scandinavia_, III (1884); J. A. Ottesen, "Bidrag til vore Settlementers og Menigheders Historie," _Amerika_ (Apr. to Nov., 1894),--an elaborate series of articles, full of genealogical and community details; E. A. Ross, "Scandinavians in America," _Century,_ LXXXVIII (1914); Geo. T. Rygh, "The Scandinavian Americans," _The Literary Northwest_, II (1893); Albert Shaw, "The Scandinavians in the United States," _Chautauquan_, VIII (1887). _State and Local Histories_ The number of historical books and pamphlets relating to the States, counties, cities, and settlements in the Northwest is very great, and for the larger part, unsatisfactory but indispensable. They have usually been written by ambitious but untrained persons, either as commercial ventures, advertising agencies, or as the pastime of retirement or old age; they are nevertheless full of suggestive data; now and then one is found which can be trusted throughout.