New Switzerland in Illinois, as described by two early Swiss settlers, Kaspar Köpfli and Johann Jacob Eggen in Spiegel von Amerika and Aufzeichnungen aus Highlands Gründungszeit
By: translated from the German by Jennie Latzer Kaeser and Manfred Hartwin Driesner ; edited and annotated by Raymond Jürgen Spahn and Betty Alderton Spahn : foreword by John Cushman Abbott.
Contributors: Köpfli, Kaspar.; Eggen, Johann Jacob, 1803-1890.; Spahn, Raymond Jürgen.; Spahn, Betty Alderton.
Publisher: Friends of Lovejoy Library, Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville
Published: 1977
Place of publication: Edwardsville
Language: eng
Number of pages: 210
Subjects: Swiss Americans -- Illinois -- Highland.; Highland (Ill.) -- History.; United States -- Emigration and immigration.; United States -- Description and travel.
Description: Consists of a guide for prospective emigrants from Switzerland to America (Köpfli, 1849) and a history of early Highland (Eggen, 1888). The latter includes previously expurated material.
Notes: Bibliography: p. 183-189.
"500 copies."
Includes index.