On the Move, On Their Own

Female Finnish Immigrants in the Red Lodge, Montana

Abstrakti

I didn't come here because of men but because of my work" wrote Finnish immigrant Anna Hakola from Seattle, Washington, to her byfriend Mikko Marttunen in Red Lodge, Montana (correspondence of Mikko Marttunen; Anna Hakola to Mikko Marttunen, October 29, 1923). In her correspondence, Anna clarified her primary puropse in leaving the coal mining village of Red Lodge: not to win the affections of another man, but to seek greater employment opportunities in urban Seattle.