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Culminating near three generations of his Swedish descended migrant family, Oscar Jungberg was well settled down in Philadelphia. Albeit irrefutably a good life, it seemed increasingly uneventful which left Jungberg with an unnerving impatience. Enough irked, he finally assembled the strength to grasp his fate to lead his life and ventured out. Essentially abandoning his tight-knit Lutheran Swedish community in doing so. After a long twenty year period on the United States east coast, seeking spiritual conquest he journeyed west.

Jungberg recalls a number of notable encounters during his westward expedition. Often times running in with veterans of the Civil War, particularly in Kansas, with those who fought for the blood-stained banner. Through contact with veterans, Jungberg managed to touch base with bounty-hunters in Kansas. There he made a living in manhunting with a company of belligerent drunks, carelessly resorting to violence to arrest dangerous, and wanted men. Finding cameraderie on the open highways and paths, it was a far cry from the mundane city life.

Having served with his accustomed manhunt company for nearly five years, where he familiarized with the moniker "Swede," Jungberg had figured it was time to move on. A change in plans stemming from a failed arrest attempt, where Jungberg witnessed the tragic slaying of three dear comrades. Routed, with tail betwixt legs, what was to be the remaining group parted in separate ways. With Jungberg stepping boots on the neighboring Tahoma grounds. 

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Early emigration to the United States started with the Swedish West India Company in 1638, with the establishment of the New Sweden colony on the Delaware River. It was a short-lived settlement lasting only until 1655, when it was sold to the Dutch. A near estimate of 700 migrants of both Swedish and Finnish descent arrived to the colony until 1656.

Ardent Swedish migrations to the United States commenced en-masse in the middle 1840s, with pioneers spearheading the development. An established number of sending communities in Sweden, who were well received in United States locales, were particularly welcomed in the Upper Midwest and Texas. Swedish communities constructed small but thriving colonies. However, with the outbreak of the American Civil War, its tragic consequences saw an end to the Swedish pioneer period. By 1890, by approximation, some half million Swedes lived in the United States. 

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