TY - BOOK AU - Frizzell,Robert W. ED - ebrary, Inc. TI - Independent immigrants: a settlement of Hanoverian Germans in western Missouri AV - F472.L2 F75 2007eb U1 - 977.8/4530431 22 PY - 2007/// CY - Columbia PB - University of Missouri Press KW - Germans KW - Missouri KW - Lafayette County KW - History KW - 19th century KW - German Americans KW - Lafayette County (Mo.) KW - Concordia (Mo.) KW - Emigration and immigration KW - Hannover (Germany : Province) KW - Electronic books KW - local N1 - 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; Electronic reproduction; Palo Alto, Calif.; ebrary; 2008; Available via World Wide Web; Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries N2 - "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 UR - http://site.ebrary.com/lib/strathmore/Doc?id=10237193 ER -