Independent immigrants

Frizzell, Robert W., 1947-

Independent immigrants a settlement of Hanoverian Germans in western Missouri / [electronic resource] : Robert W. Frizzell. - Columbia : University of Missouri Press, c2007. - xii, 202 p. : ill., maps.

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.
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Germans--History--Missouri--Lafayette County--19th century.
German Americans--History--Missouri--Lafayette County--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.

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