Use the above window to search all fields. Otherwise, search individual fields below.
Please note: In many of the bibliographic records, MKI has not used umlauts (ä, ö, ü) or the letter ß. Try searching both for umlauts and for ae, oe, or ue, and ss.
| Format | Book Whole |
|---|---|
| Author, Monographic | Frizzell, Robert W. |
| Title, Monographic | Independent Immigrants: A Settlement of Hanoverian Germans in Western Missouri |
| Place of Publication | Columbia |
| Publisher | University of Missouri Press |
| Date of Publication | 2007 |
| Extent of Work | xii, 202 |
| Abstract | 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. ---- Contents: Introduction -- 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 -- Conclusion -- Appendix : Letters of F. J. and Marie Biltz -- Bibliography. |
| Notes | Includes bibliographical references (pp. 179-191) and index. |
| Call Number | MKI / WHS F 472 L2 F75 2007 |
| MKI Terms | Germans -- Missouri -- Lafayette County -- History -- 19th century/ German Americans -- Missouri/ Hannover (Germany : Province) -- Emigration and immigration -- History -- 19th century/ Civil War, 1861-1865 -- German Americans |