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Adelsverein

Author : Celia Hayes
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780934955843
Total Pages : 1050 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (558 download)

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Download or read book Adelsverein written by Celia Hayes and published by . This book was released on 2011-09-01 with total page 1050 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Adelsverein Trilogy, now combined in a single hardbound edition, is a saga of family and community loyalties, and the challenge of building a new life on the hostile frontier. They came from Germany to Texas in 1847, under the auspices of the "Mainzer Adelsverein" - the society of noblemen of Mainz, who tried to fill a settlement in Texas with German farmers and craftsmen. Christian "Vati" Steinmetz, the clockmaker of Ulm in Bavaria, has brought his sons and daughters: Magda - passionate and courageous, courted by Carl Becker, a young frontiersman with a dangerous past. Her sister Liesel wants nothing more than to be a good wife to her husband Hansi, a stolid and practical farmer called by circumstances to be something greater, in the boom years of the great cattle ranches. Their brothers Friedrich and Johann, have always been close - in the Civil War, one will wear Union blue, the other Confederate grey homespun - but never forget they are brothers. And finally, there is Vati's adopted daughter Rosalie, whose life ends as it began - in tragedy. But Vati's family will will survive and ultimately triumph. They will make their mark in Texas, their new land. Adelsverein: It's about love and loss, joy and grief . . . and the sometimes wrenching process of becoming American.

Voyage to North America, 1844-45

Author : Carl Solms-Braunfels
Publisher : University of North Texas Press
ISBN 13 : 9781574411249
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (112 download)

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Download or read book Voyage to North America, 1844-45 written by Carl Solms-Braunfels and published by University of North Texas Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Included in the Appendix are two additional important documents. First, is the diary of the colonial director of the Adelsverein, Alexander Bourgeois, who accompanied Solms until dismissed in August 1844. This record provides a unique counterpoint to Solms's viewpoint. The second is the Memoir on American Affairs, addressed to Queen Victoria. In this, written in 1845 some months after Solms's return to Germany, develops political views which were strongly influenced by Solms's stay in Texas."--BOOK JACKET.

A German Paradise in Texas

Author : Stephen A. Engelking
Publisher : Texianer Verlag
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 313 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book A German Paradise in Texas written by Stephen A. Engelking and published by Texianer Verlag. This book was released on 2019-12-06 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A gripping historical novel about the Germans who left their home country more than 150 years ago. False promises of a better life and incompetent organisers attracted thousands who had little to lose back home to look for a new life in Texas with the hope of creating a New Germany free from tyranny and poverty. These courageous people created much of the culture of Texas today. This emotive rendering of Scheffel’s monumental ‘lost’ heart-rending classic makes this story available for English language readers for the first time. Notes are provided for additional background information.

Readings from the Apocryphal Gospels: Selected and with an Introduction by Hugh J. Schonfield

Author : Hugh J. Schonfield
Publisher : Texianer Verlag
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 302 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Readings from the Apocryphal Gospels: Selected and with an Introduction by Hugh J. Schonfield written by Hugh J. Schonfield and published by Texianer Verlag. This book was released on with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a reissue of the book originally written by Hugh J. Schonfield in 1939 and published by Nelson in 1940. The front flap of the dust cover describes the work thus:"A collection of the many interesting stories about our Lord to be found in the accounts of His life not regarded as "canonical." The importance of these documents lies in the fact that they embody a useful remnant of independent tradition about the life and teaching of Christ; also they throw light on the spiritual outlook of the early Christian Age in which they were compiled.The Gospels of James, of Pseudo-Matthew, of Thomas, and of Nicodemus are those from which extracts have been taken, and the translation used is that of the late Alexander Walker."Here we have re-set and produced this fascinating book in Kindle Format.

German Pioneers on the American Frontier

Author : Andreas Reichstein
Publisher : University of North Texas Press
ISBN 13 : 9781574411348
Total Pages : 348 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (113 download)

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Download or read book German Pioneers on the American Frontier written by Andreas Reichstein and published by University of North Texas Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wilhelm Wagner (1803-1877), son of Peter Wagner, was born in Dürkheim, Germany. He married Friedericke Odenwald (1812-1893). They had nine children. They emigrated and settled in Illinois. His brother, Julius Wagner (1816-1903) married Emilie M. Schneider (1820-1896). They had seven children. They emigrated and settled in Texas.

Uncle Bob & the Road to the Devil Saloon

Author : Patrick D. Patterson
Publisher : WestBow Press
ISBN 13 : 1512737755
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (127 download)

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Download or read book Uncle Bob & the Road to the Devil Saloon written by Patrick D. Patterson and published by WestBow Press. This book was released on 2016-04-18 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Uncle Bob, Robert E. Lee Leavitt, was a true pioneer of the Wild West. This is his story, and that of his family, friends and fellow pioneers. The story tells of Uncle Bobs forbearers as they ventured from Germany and Ireland to Americas shores, and traveled to what is now the city of Victoria, in southeast Texas. From there, Uncle Bob leads a historic cattle drive to Montana, participated in crucial battles with the Comanche Indians, ultimately settling in a small Montana town where he ends up staying to run a red-light saloon. Uncle Bobs story is told by himself, as well as by those who knew him best. Uncle Bob, a man who knew triumph and defeat, jubilation and sorrow, displays the American Experience with all of its true grit, as well as its uncanny humor.

Comanches and Germans on the Texas Frontier

Author : Daniel J. Gelo
Publisher : Texas A&M University Press
ISBN 13 : 1623495946
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (234 download)

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Download or read book Comanches and Germans on the Texas Frontier written by Daniel J. Gelo and published by Texas A&M University Press. This book was released on 2018-01-02 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner, 2018 Presidio La Bahia Award, sponsored by the Sons of the Republic of Texas In 1851, an article appeared in a German journal, Geographisches Jahrbuch (Geographic Yearbook), that sought to establish definitive connections, using language observations, among the Comanches, Shoshones, and Apaches. Heinrich Berghaus’s study was based on lexical data gathered by a young German settler in Texas, Emil Kriewitz, and included a groundbreaking list of Comanche words and their German translations. Berghaus also offered Kriewitz’s cultural notes on the Comanches, a discussion of the existing literature on the three tribes, and an original map of Comanche hunting grounds. Perhaps because it was published only in German, the existence of Berghaus’s study has been all but unknown to North American scholars, even though it offers valuable insights into Native American languages, toponyms, ethnonyms, hydronyms, and cultural anthropology. It was also a significant document revealing the history of German-Comanche relations in Texas. Daniel J. Gelo and Christopher J. Wickham now make available for the first time a reliable English translation of this important nineteenth-century document. In addition to making the article accessible to English speakers, they also place Berghaus’s work into historical context and provide detailed commentary on its value for anthropologists and historians who study German settlement in Texas. Comanches and Germans on the Texas Frontier will make significant contributions to multiple disciplines, opening a new lens onto Native American ethnography and ethnology.

New Homes in a New Land

Author : Ethel Hander Geue
Publisher : Genealogical Publishing Com
ISBN 13 : 0806309806
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (63 download)

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Download or read book New Homes in a New Land written by Ethel Hander Geue and published by Genealogical Publishing Com. This book was released on 2009-06 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work is essentially a compilation of information gleaned from the passenger lists of ships that arrived at Galveston between the years 1847 and 1861. It is also the story of the German immigration to Texas during this formative period of Texas history.

Germany and the Americas [3 volumes]

Author : Thomas Adam
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1851096337
Total Pages : 1366 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (51 download)

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Download or read book Germany and the Americas [3 volumes] written by Thomas Adam and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2005-11-07 with total page 1366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This comprehensive encyclopedia details the close ties between the German-speaking world and the Americas, examining the extensive Germanic cultural and political legacy in the nations of the New World and the equally substantial influence of the Americas on the Germanic nations. From the medical discoveries of Dr. Johann Siegert, surgeon general to Simon Bolivar, to the amazing explorations of the early-19th-century German explorer Alexander von Humboldt, whose South American and Caribbean travels made him one of the most celebrated men in Europe, Germany and the Americas examines both the profound Germanic cultural and political legacy throughout the Americas and the lasting influence of American culture on the German-speaking world. Ever since Baron von Steuben helped create George Washington's army, German Americans have exhibited decisive leadership not only in the military, but also in politics, the arts, and business. Germany and the Americas charts the lasting links between the Germanic world and the nations of the Americas in a comprehensive survey featuring a chronology of key events spanning 400 years of transatlantic history.

Nassau Plantation

Author : James C. Kearney
Publisher : University of North Texas Press
ISBN 13 : 1574412868
Total Pages : 367 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (744 download)

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Download or read book Nassau Plantation written by James C. Kearney and published by University of North Texas Press. This book was released on 2010 with total page 367 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the 1840s an organization of German noblemen, the Mainzner Adelsverein, attempted to settle thousands of German emigrants on the Texas frontier. Nassau Plantation, located near modern-day Round Top, Texas, in northern Fayette County, was a significant part of this story. No one, however, has adequately documented the role of the slave plantation or given a convincing explanation of the Adelsverein from the German point of view. James C. Kearney has studied a wealth of original source material (much of it in German) to illuminate the history of the plantation and the larger goals and motivation of the Adelsverein, both in Texas and in Germany. Moreover, this new study highlights the problematic relationship of German emigrants to slavery. Few today realize that the society's original colonization plan included ownership and operation of slave plantations. Ironically, the German settlements the society later established became hotbeds of anti-slavery and anti-secessionist sentiment. Responding to criticism in Germany, the society declared its colonies to be "slave free zones" in 1845. This act thrust the society front and center into the complicated political landscape of Texas prior to annexation. James A. Mayberry, among others, suspected an English-German conspiracy to flood the state with anti-slavery immigrants and delivered a fiery speech in the legislature denouncing the society. In the 1850s the plantation became a magnet for German immigration into Fayette and Austin Counties. In this connection, Kearney explores the role and influence of Otto von Roeder, a largely neglected but important Texas-German. Another chapter deals with the odyssey of the extended von Rosenberg family, who settled on the plantation in 1850 and helped to elevate the nearby town of Round Top into a regional center of culture and education. Many members of the family subsequently rose to positions of leadership and influence in Texas. Several notable personalities graced the plantation--Carl Prince of Solms-Braunfels, Johann Otto Freiherr von Meusebach, botanist F. Lindheimer, and the renowned naturalist Dr. Ferdinand Roemer, to name a few. Dramatic events also occurred at the plantation, including a deadly shootout, a successful escape by two slaves (documented in an unprecedented way), and litigation over ownership that wound its way to both the Texas Supreme Court and the U.S. Supreme Court.

Adelsverein: The gathering

Author : Celia Hayes
Publisher : Booklocker.com
ISBN 13 : 9781932045178
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (451 download)

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Download or read book Adelsverein: The gathering written by Celia Hayes and published by Booklocker.com. This book was released on 2008 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "They have come from Germany to Texas in 1847, under the auspices of the 'Mainzer Adelsverein' - the society of noblemen of Mainz, who seek to fill a settlement in Texas with German farmers and craftsmen. Among them is a family who will survive and endure, making their mark in Texas, their new land. Christian 'Vati' Steinmetz, the clockmaker of Ulm in Bavaria, has brought his many sons and daughters: Magda, passionate and courageous, is courted by Carl Becker, a young frontiersman with a dangerous past. Her sister, Liesel wants nothing more than to be a good wife to her husband Hansi, a stolid and practical farmer who will be called by circumstances to become something greater. Brothers Friedrich and Johann, who have always been close, will find themselves fighting in the Civil War, but one will wear Union blue, the other Confederate grey homespun. Yet they will never forget that they are brothers."--Publisher description.

Hill Country

Author : Richard Zelade
Publisher : Taylor Trade Publications
ISBN 13 : 1461625394
Total Pages : 520 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (616 download)

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Download or read book Hill Country written by Richard Zelade and published by Taylor Trade Publications. This book was released on 1999-02-01 with total page 520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book features ten tours to Central Texas that capture the essence of its flavor and charm. Included in this guide are historic tidbits, folklore, geography, major attractions, maps, listings of accomodations, a calendar of events, and more.

Pleasant Bend

Author : Dan Worrall
Publisher : Dan Michael Worrall
ISBN 13 : 0982599625
Total Pages : 434 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (825 download)

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Download or read book Pleasant Bend written by Dan Worrall and published by Dan Michael Worrall. This book was released on 2016-12 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Today’s Greater Houston is a vast urban place. In the mid-nineteenth century, however, Houston was a small town – a dot in a vast frontier. Extant written histories of Houston largely confine themselves to the small area within the city limits of the day, leaving nearly forgotten the history of large rural areas that later fell beneath the city’s late twentieth century urban sprawl. One such area is that of upper Buffalo Bayou, extending westward from downtown Houston to Katy. European settlement here began at Piney Point in 1824, over a decade before Houston was founded. Ox wagons full of cotton traveled across a seemingly endless tallgrass prairie from the Brazos River east to Harrisburg (and later to Houston) along the San Felipe Trail, built in 1830. Also here, Texan families fled eastward during the Runaway Scrape of 1836, immigrant German settlers trekked westward to new farms along the north bank of the bayou in the 1840s, and newly freed African American families walked east toward Houston from Brazos plantations after Emancipation. Pioneer settlers operated farms, ranches and sawmills. Near present-day Shepherd Drive, Reconstruction-era cowboys assembled herds of longhorns and headed north along a southeastern branch of the Chisholm Trail. Little physical evidence remains today of this former frontier world.

Lone Star Travel Guide to Central Texas

Author : Richard Zelade
Publisher : Taylor Trade Publications
ISBN 13 : 9781589796089
Total Pages : 424 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (96 download)

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Download or read book Lone Star Travel Guide to Central Texas written by Richard Zelade and published by Taylor Trade Publications. This book was released on 2011-05-16 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Formerly a part of the popular Lone Star Guide to the Texas Hill Country, Central Texas now gets its own treatment in this up-to-date guide that includes history, folklore, and geography; detailed listings of lodgings, restaurants, and entertainment; major attractions, including state parks, museums, and historic places; directions, days and hours of operation, addresses, and phone numbers; and maps and calendar of events. Five tours take you from the Balcones Escarpment to "Central Texas Stew," a region of the state largely settled by Czechs and Germans in the early twentieth century.

Uncle John's Perpetually Pleasing Bathroom Reader

Author : Bathroom Readers' Institute
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 160710931X
Total Pages : 495 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (71 download)

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Download or read book Uncle John's Perpetually Pleasing Bathroom Reader written by Bathroom Readers' Institute and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2013-11-12 with total page 495 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The beloved bathroom reader series returns with this twenty-sixth edition that’s flush with weird facts on a wide array of topics. The twenty-sixth annual edition of Uncle John’s wildly successful series is all-new and jam-packed with the BRI’s patented mix of fun and information. Open to any page and you may find an interesting origin (like the origin of the snow globe) or a piece of obscure history (like the true story of the man who tried to repeal the law of gravity). You’ll also find weird news, urban legends, brain teasers, classic riddles, bizarre headlines, and of course, the incredible factoids at the bottom of each page. Here are a few of the perpetually pleasing articles awaiting you: · The Lamest Excuses of All Time · How to Survive on . . . Roadkill · Astronauts Who Got Kicked Out of Space · The Woman Who Was Her Own Twin · Foiled by Technology: Dumb Crooks Edition · The History of the Teleprompter, the Police Car, and the Fly Swatter · “Jogging Makes You Dumber,” and Other Real Study Results · The Lost Fortune of Abraham Lincoln · Boxing Lingo · And much, much more 2014 IBPA Benjamin Franklin Award Silver Winner in Humor!

Violence in the Hill Country

Author : Nicholas Keefauver Roland
Publisher : University of Texas Press
ISBN 13 : 1477321756
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (773 download)

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Download or read book Violence in the Hill Country written by Nicholas Keefauver Roland and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2021-02-09 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the nineteenth century, Texas’s advancing western frontier was the site of one of America’s longest conflicts between white settlers and native peoples. The Texas Hill Country functioned as a kind of borderland within the larger borderland of Texas itself, a vast and fluid area where, during the Civil War, the slaveholding South and the nominally free-labor West collided. As in many borderlands, Nicholas Roland argues, the Hill Country was marked by violence, as one set of peoples, states, and systems eventually displaced others. In this painstakingly researched book, Roland analyzes patterns of violence in the Texas Hill Country to examine the cultural and political priorities of white settlers and their interaction with the century-defining process of national integration and state-building in the Civil War era. He traces the role of violence in the region from the eve of the Civil War, through secession and the Indian wars, and into Reconstruction. Revealing a bitter history of warfare, criminality, divided communities, political violence, vengeance killings, and economic struggle, Roland positions the Texas Hill Country as emblematic of the Southwest of its time.

Fort Martin Scott

Author : Joseph Luther
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1625840292
Total Pages : 183 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (258 download)

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Download or read book Fort Martin Scott written by Joseph Luther and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2013-04-09 with total page 183 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fort Martin Scott still stands guard in the heart of Texas 150 years after its construction, which was prompted by a peace treaty between Germans and the Penateka Comanches. The first frontier fort in Texas, the original complex of twenty-one buildings allowed soldiers to patrol the Upper Immigrant Trail through Comanche and Apache territory. The old fort was a hub for military patrols during the Texas Indian Wars. Famous army units, including the First and Eighth Infantries, as well as the Second Dragoons and Fourth Cavalry, were all stationed at this post at one time or another. Fort Martin Scott was the locality of much partisan conflict during the Civil War. Author and historian Joseph Luther tells the full story of this historic Texas icon.