German settlement in Missouri
Subtitle: new land, old ways
By: Robyn Burnett and Ken Luebbering.
Contributors: Luebbering, Ken, 1946-
Series: Missouri heritage readers
Publisher: University of Missouri Press
Published: 1996
Place of publication: Columbia
Language: eng
Number of pages: 124
Subjects: German Americans -- Missouri -- History -- 19th century.; Readers for new literates.; Missouri -- Emigration and immigration -- History -- 19th century.
Description: German immigrants came to America for two main reasons: to seek new opportunities in the New World, and to avoid political and economic problems in Europe. In German Settlement in Missouri, Robyn Burnett and Ken Luebbering demonstrate the crucial role that the German immigrants and their descendants played in the settlement and development of Missouri's architectural, political, religious, economic, and social landscape.

Relying heavily on unpublished memoirs, letters, diaries, and official records, the authors provide important new narratives and firsthand commentary from the immigrants themselves.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 117-119) and index.