"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.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Hanoverian background -- Settling in Missouri and starting farms -- Founding churches and using the law -- The Civil War and disaster in western Missouri -- Postwar growth and development -- Appendix : Letters of F.J. and Marie Biltz.
