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| Format | Book Whole |
|---|---|
| Author, Monographic | Urban, F. B. |
| Title, Monographic | Gottlob Lerch. Eine Erzaehlung |
| Place of Publication | Chicago, Ill. |
| Publisher | Wartburg Pub. House |
| Date of Publication | [18--] |
| Extent of Work | 89 pages : illustrations ; 17 cm |
| Abstract | "Gottlob Lerch was a simple, hard-working man who immigrated from the Kuban Region of the Russian Empire to the plains of North Dakota to make a new life for himself and his family." |
| Notes | Book is in poor condition; brittle paper; missing title page. On cover: Urban, Gottlob Lerch. Photographic plates. |
| MKI Annotation | Ingeborg Wallner Smith, who has translated the work into English, writes: “This is a homesteading story with a twist. This homesteader is not only an immigrant from Russia, but is the descendant of the German farmers invited to Russia by Catherine the Great. Lerch was a proud countryman, massive and gnarled like an oak. He could count up his forefathers unto the fifth generation, and was convinced that man’s destiny was to cultivate the land and to preserve it.” |
| Call Number | PIA IL |
| MKI Terms | Russian Germans/ North Dakota/ Farming/ Fiction |