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Independent immigrants

by Frizzell, Robert W.,
Additional authors: ebrary, Inc.
Published by : University of Missouri Press, (Columbia :) Physical details: xii, 202 p. : ill., maps.
Subject(s): 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. | Electronic books.
Year: 2007
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 179-191) and index.

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.

"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.

Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2013. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.

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