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The biography of a nineteenth-century German who became a leader of German immigrants in Texas.

Trade Review
"There is no more colorful and heroic chapter in Texas history than the struggling colonization of the Hill Country by...German immigrants in the 1840s." Corpus Christi Caller-Times

Table of Contents
  • Preface
  • Part I: Germany, 1812–1845
    • 1. The Family Circle: Dillenburg
    • 2. The Circle Widens: Koblenz
    • 3. The Expanding Horizon
    • 4. A Meeting of Minds
    • 5. The Leaven of Liberalism
    • 6. The Noble Experiment Begins
    • 7. Decision
  • Part II: Colonization, 1845–1847
    • 8. Texas on the Horizon
    • 9. Texas in Reality
    • 10. Echoes of Prince Solms
    • 11. The Frontier
    • 12. Swarm of Immigrants
    • 13. The Face of Tragedy
    • 14. A Search for Solace
    • 15. The Special Commissioner
    • 16. The Hanging Mob
    • 17. Land of the Comanche
    • 18. Web of Intrigue
    • 19. The Verein Evaluated
  • Part III: Private Life, 1847–1897
    • 20. “Texas Forever”
    • 21. Texas Senator
    • 22. The Hearth
    • 23. A House Divided
    • 24. Loyal Valley
    • 25. “Still Forward Press”
  • Appendix: Treaty between the Commissary General of the German Emigration Company and the Comanche Nation
  • Bibliography
  • Index

John O. Meusebach German Colonizer in Texas

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      Publisher: University of Texas Press
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 01/01/1966
      ISBN13: 9780292740198, 978-0292740198
      ISBN10: 0292740190

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      The biography of a nineteenth-century German who became a leader of German immigrants in Texas.

      Trade Review
      "There is no more colorful and heroic chapter in Texas history than the struggling colonization of the Hill Country by...German immigrants in the 1840s." Corpus Christi Caller-Times

      Table of Contents
      • Preface
      • Part I: Germany, 1812–1845
        • 1. The Family Circle: Dillenburg
        • 2. The Circle Widens: Koblenz
        • 3. The Expanding Horizon
        • 4. A Meeting of Minds
        • 5. The Leaven of Liberalism
        • 6. The Noble Experiment Begins
        • 7. Decision
      • Part II: Colonization, 1845–1847
        • 8. Texas on the Horizon
        • 9. Texas in Reality
        • 10. Echoes of Prince Solms
        • 11. The Frontier
        • 12. Swarm of Immigrants
        • 13. The Face of Tragedy
        • 14. A Search for Solace
        • 15. The Special Commissioner
        • 16. The Hanging Mob
        • 17. Land of the Comanche
        • 18. Web of Intrigue
        • 19. The Verein Evaluated
      • Part III: Private Life, 1847–1897
        • 20. “Texas Forever”
        • 21. Texas Senator
        • 22. The Hearth
        • 23. A House Divided
        • 24. Loyal Valley
        • 25. “Still Forward Press”
      • Appendix: Treaty between the Commissary General of the German Emigration Company and the Comanche Nation
      • Bibliography
      • Index

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