Independent immigrants
Subtitle: a settlement of Hanoverian Germans in western Missouri
By: Robert W. Frizzell.
Publisher: University of Missouri Press
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Columbia
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780826217615
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
Description: "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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Hanoverian background; title: Settling in Missouri and starting farms; title: Founding churches and using the law; title: The Civil War and Disaster in western Missouri; title: Postwar growth and development; title: Appendix : Letters of F.J. and Marie Biltz.