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As the Föhn blew the first breaths of spring into the Alps in March 1845; two Swiss men embarked on a circuitous voyage that took them from the impoverished canton of Glarus in eastern Switzerland to the hills of southern Wisconsin. Their mission: to select and purchase a tract of land to which the Swiss government could dispatch part of its excess population. With subscriptions from prospective emigrants totaling about $2;600; Nicholas Dürst and Fridolin Streiff ultimately purchased 1;280 acres of timber and prospective farmland in Green County—land fellow immigrants declared “beautiful beyond expectation;” offering “excellent timber; good soil; fine springs; and a stream filled with fish.” Thus began the colony at New Glarus; Wisconsin; perhaps the most distinctively Swiss settlement in the United States. A mere five years later; Wisconsin boasted 1;224 of the nation’s 13;358 Swiss immigrants.