Title: Maria von Blücher's Corpus Christi : letters from the South Texas frontier, 1849-1879 /
Authors: Blücher, Maria Augusta von, 1827-1893.; Cheeseman, Bruce S.
Publisher: Texas A&M University Press,
Year: 2002
Subjects: Blücher, Maria Augusta von, Correspondence.; Women pioneers Texas Corpus Christi Correspondence.; Pioneers Texas Corpus Christi Correspondence.; German American women Texas Corpus Christi Correspondence.; Frontier and pioneer life Texas Corpus Christi.; German Americans Texas Corpus Christi Social life and customs; Corpus Christi (Tex.) Social life and customs; Corpus Christi (Tex.) Biography.
Abstract: "In 1849, a young German bride and her husband stepped off a ship in Corpus Christi Bay to establish their home in the new frontier settlement. For the next three decades Maria von Blucher wrote letters home describing the hardships of droughts and Indian and bandit raids, the chaos of the American Civil War, the discomforts of pioneer living, the joys and heartbreaks of family life, and the development of a town that her descendants would help to build into a thriving city."
Contents: Prussia -- Passage to a new land : America -- Early Corpus Christi : the 1850s -- Civil War -- Reconstruction and redemption : the 1870s -- Epilogue.