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Independent immigrants a settlement of Hanoverian Germans in western Missouri /

"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 f...

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Main Author: Frizzell, Robert W., 1947-
Corporate Author: ebrary, Inc
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Columbia : University of Missouri Press, c2007.
Subjects:
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 century.
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Table of 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.

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