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Independent immigrants : a settlement of Hanoverian Germans in western Missouri
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Independent immigrants : a settlement of Hanoverian Germans in western Missouri / Robert W. Frizzell.
ISBN
9780826217615 (alk. paper)
Published
Columbia : University of Missouri Press, c2007.
Physical Description
1 online resource
Summary
"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 flourished after the Civil War"--Provided by publisher.
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Internet Archive collection.
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Language
English
Added to Catalog
May 08, 2020
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (p. 179-191) and index.
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.
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