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A few years later, Finnsheep made their way down into the US by enthusiasts who hoped to improve maternal qualities in commercial flocks. [ 4 ] By 1971, The Finnsheep Breeders Association had formed, providing shepherds with a standard of documentation to maintain and improve the integrity of the breed.
From 1840 to 1930, over 1.3 million Swedes migrated to America, with a particularly significant influx of 92,000 between 1920 and 1930. [4] Predominantly, they chose to settle in the Midwest, especially around the Great Lakes, while a smaller number journeyed to destinations like Canada or Cuba.
Rural life in Finland during the 1860s seemed doomed to remain laborious, stunted, and forever at the mercy of unpredictable weather. In 1867, a severe crop failure in Finland drove masses of Finns, especially from rural Ostrobothnia, to migrate into Norway, from where they later moved to the United States and Canada. [4]
By 1750, about 60,000 Irish and 50,000 Germans came to live in British North America, many of them settling in the Mid-Atlantic region. William Penn founded the colony of Pennsylvania in 1682, and attracted an influx of British Quakers with his policies of religious liberty and freehold ownership.
Map of early human migrations based on the Out of Africa theory; figures are in thousands of years ago (kya). [2]The peopling of the Americas began when Paleolithic hunter-gatherers (Paleo-Indians) entered North America from the North Asian Mammoth steppe via the Beringia land bridge, which had formed between northeastern Siberia and western Alaska due to the lowering of sea level during the ...
Daniel Boone Escorting the American Settlers Through the Cumberland Gap by George Caleb Bingham (1851–52). American pioneers, also known as American settlers, were European American, [1] Asian American, [2] and free African American [3] settlers who migrated westward from the Thirteen Colonies and later the United States of America to settle and develop areas of the nation within the ...
The California Red is a medium-size sheep, with rams weighing between 180 and 250 pounds (82 and 113 kg) [5] and ewes between 130 and 140 pounds (59 and 64 kg). [5] They have a bold, strong expression framed by a chiseled muzzle and long, pendulous ears. [2]
The Finn-Dorset or Finn Dorset is a British and Irish sheep, a cross-breed of the Finnsheep with the Dorset Horn. [1]: 801 [2]: 291 Dolly the sheep, first mammal to be cloned from an adult somatic cell, was a Finn Dorset. [3]