Independent immigrants [electronic resource] : a settlement of Hanoverian Germans in western Missouri / Robert W. Frizzell.
"Frizzell examines the American immigrant experience of German peasant farmers from the Kingdom of Hanover, who immigrated to Lafayette County, Missouri, to form a new community centered on the town of Concordia, showing how it differed from other German immigrant communities in America and how it f...
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Language: | English |
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Columbia :
University of Missouri Press,
c2007.
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Independent Immigrants: A Settlement of Hanoverian Germans in Western Missouri |
Format: | Electronic eBook |
Contents:
- Hanoverian background
- Settling in Missouri and starting farms
- Founding churches and using the law
- The Civil War and disaster in western Missouri
- Postwar growth and development
- Appendix : Letters of F.J. and Marie Biltz.