The Journal of Otto Peltonen: A Finnish Immigrant
My Name Is America

The Journal of Otto Peltonen: A Finnish Immigrant

By
William Durbin
William Durbin,
William Durban
William Durban
2000 • 171 pages

In 1905, fifteen-year-old Otto describes in his journal how he travels from Finland to America, joining his father in a dreary iron mining community in Minnesota and becomes involved in a union fight for better working conditions

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My Name Is America is a 10-book series first released in 1998 with contributions by Jim Murphy, Barry Denenberg, and William Durbin.

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