Independent immigrants : a settlement of Hanoverian Germans in western Missouri /

"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...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Frizzell, Robert W., 1947-
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Columbia : University of Missouri Press, [2007]
Subjects:	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.
Online Access:	Table of contents only

Table of 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.