Independent immigrants [electronic resource] : a settlement of Hanoverian Germans in western Missouri / Robert W. Frizzell.
By: Frizzell, Robert W.
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BookPublisher: Columbia : University of Missouri Press, c2007Description: xii, 202 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.Subject(s): Germans -- Missouri -- Lafayette County -- History -- 19th century | German Americans -- Missouri -- Lafayette County -- History -- 19th century | Lafayette County (Mo.) -- History -- 19th century | Concordia (Mo.) -- History -- 19th century | Lafayette County (Mo.) -- Emigration and immigration -- History -- 19th century | Hannover (Germany : Province) -- Emigration and immigration -- History -- 19th centuryGenre/Form: Electronic books.DDC classification: 977.8/4530431 Online resources: An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view Includes bibliographical references (p. 179-191) and index.
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.
"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.
Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2008. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.
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