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Independent immigrants [electronic resource] : a settlement of Hanoverian Germans in western Missouri / Robert W. Frizzell.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Frizzell, Robert W., 1947-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Germans--Missouri--Lafayette County--History--19th century.
- Germans.
- German Americans--Missouri--Lafayette County--History--19th century.
- German Americans.
- Lafayette County (Mo.)--History--19th century.
- Lafayette County (Mo.).
- Concordia (Mo.)--History--19th century.
- Concordia (Mo.).
- Lafayette County (Mo.)--Emigration and immigration--History--19th century.
- Hannover (Germany : Province)--Emigration and immigration--History--19th century.
- Hannover (Germany : Province).
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (217 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Columbia : University of Missouri Press, c2007.
- Language Note:
- English
- 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.
- 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.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 179-191) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0-8262-6609-6
- OCLC:
- 297454548
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