Title: Adelsverein
Description: First of a trilogy of historical novels about the mid-19 German settlements in the central Texas Hill Country. Subsequent volume *Adelsverein-The Sowing* covers the violent Civil War period, and *Adelsverein-The Harvesting*, the post-war decade and the rise of the Texas cattle industry.
Subjects: Fiction, History, Adelsverein, German Americans, Frontier and pioneer life, Emigration and immigration, German American families, Germans, Fiction, historical, general, Frontier and pioneer life, fiction, Texas, fiction, United states, history, civil war, 1861-1865, fiction
Places: San Antonio, Goliad, Galveston and IndianolaTexas, Abilene Kansas, Ulm and Bremen Germany, London England, Monterrey Mexico, Comancheria, California, United States
People: German immigrants, Sam Houston, John Coffee Hays, Prince Karl of Solms-Braunfels, Sam Maverick, John O. Meusebach
Time periods: 19th century from 1836 to 1876