The Persistence of Ethnicity: Dutch Calvinist Pioneers in Amsterdam, Montana

agriculture Alberda America Amsterdam Bedum Bozeman Braaksma Broekema brothers century Christian education Christian Reformed church Christian school Churchill conflict consistory consolidation cont crop cultural Dijk Dijken doctrine Dutch community Dutch immigrants Dutch language Dutch settlement Dutch-American early economic emigration ethnic Fabriek farm farmers father Flikkema Friesland Gallatin Irrigation Company Gallatin Valley Geertje God's grace Groningen Hoeksema Holland homestead Irrigation Company Township Jacob Kimm John Kimm's Klaas Schuiling Klaver Kuyperian land language later letters lived Malting Company Township Manhattan Malting Company married Montana moved movement Netherlands Nijverdal Northern Pacific Railroad Pacific Railroad Township parents pastor pattern percent Pieter Protestant Reformed church Quarter relatives religious schism school board seceders Secession Section secular Selle sense social Spijk story tion USA-Homestead Township Venhuizen Verwolf Weidenaar West Gallatin Irrigation wife Willemina Wormser writes Zeeland