Adelsverein
Subtitle: Book One - The Gathering
Publisher: Booklocker - Strider Nolan Publishing
Published: December 2008
Format: Trade Paperback
Number of pages: 365
ISBN-13: 9781932045178
First sentence: The Mexican soldiers marched the prisoners away from the old citadel on the seventh day after Colonel Fannin had surrendered under a white flag.
Description: A saga of family and community loyalties, and the challenge of building a new life on the hostile and dangerous frontier. They have come from Germany to Texas in 1847, under the auspices of the "Mainzer Adelsverein" - the society of noblemen of Mainz, who seek to fill a settlement in Texas with German farmers and craftsmen. Among them is the family of Christian "Vati" Steinmetz, the clockmaker of Ulm, with his sons and his daughters. Adelsverein - The Gathering is about love and loss, joy and grief - and the sometimes wrenching process of becoming American.
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