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| Format | Book Whole |
|---|---|
| Author, Monographic | Konnak, Sally |
| Title, Monographic | Toward Understanding the Founders of the Freie Gemeinde of Sauk County (307 Polk Street, Sauk County, Wisconsin), Part II: Coming to the Sauk Prairie |
| Place of Publication | Spring Green, Wis. |
| Publisher | the author |
| Date of Publication | 2007 |
| Extent of Work | 60 |
| Abstract | Describes the arrival of the founders of the village of Sauk City, Wisconsin, and its Freie Gemeinde, and the early settlement period 1840-1861. Includes a summary of pre-settlement history, information on the post-glacial landscape, Native American villages and mounds, and the water routes of voyageurs and priests. The effects of white settlement on the land are discussed. Contents: The Lure of the New Land. The Sauk Prairie. The Oak Openings. Wetlands -- The Native Peoples -- Here Come the Colonists -- Capt. Marryat's Diary in America -- Fathers Inama and Gaertner; Gaertner's 1846 Panorama Drawing -- Wisconsin Beckons the 48ers -- Freethinkers on the Prairie. Exit: Agoston -- Formation of the Freie Gemeinde; 1850 Census -- Founders and Friends: Snapshots and Anecdotes -- Freie Gemeindler in the Civil War -- The Sauk Prairie: Requiescat in pace. Includes references.Names mentioned: Frederick George Jacob Lueders, J. C. Graepel, Emma Rendtorff, the Ochsner family, Agoston Haraszthy, Karoly Fischer, Adolph Rendtorff, Henriette Graepel, Ottilie and Karl Naffz, Peter Kehl, Matthias Leinenkugel, Carl Duerr, Eduard Schroeter, Paul Lachmund, Berry Haney, Joseph J. Heller, Adam Clas, Elise Schumm, Paul Berwig, Herman Schumm, Emilie Crusius, Herman Leuders, Lona Fischer, C. F. Viebahn, Christoph Spiehr, Robert Cunradi, Johann Kehl, Wilhelm Nebel, the Meyer families, Michael and August Derleth, Eduard Ganz, Charles Buchanau, Jacob Bohn, Henry Sorg, George Ferber, Julius Kuhn, Gottfried Bosshard, William Thiele, Jr., J. Ulrich Schmidt, Max Kroscher, Ferdinand Keller, and John Dieterle. |
| Notes | Donated by Sally Konnak |
| Call Number | MKI P2006-16 |
| MKI Terms | Freethinkers/ Sauk City (Wis.)/ German Americans -- Wisconsin/ Forty-eighters/ Wisconsin -- Sauk County/ Revolution, 1848-1849 -- Refugees |