Roberta Reb Allen

Once We Were Strangers (eBook, ePUB)

A German Immigrant Family in the Nineteenth-Century Midwest

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Little attention has been paid to the settlement of Germans in Kansas, and Roberta Reb Allen's Once We Were Strangers helps to fill that void. It is both the saga of an immigrant family told within the larger social, political, and economic context of the day and a scholarly exploration of the settlement patterns and the diverse choices made by German pioneers. Starting in the small village of Ebhausen in the Black Forest of the Kingdom of Württemberg in what is now Germany, Allen follows the fortunes of the Lodholzes who journeyed across the Atlantic and eventually settled on the plains of the Kansas Territory in Marshall County.

Based on nearly 200 family letters and documents translated from Old German, Once We Were Strangers chronicles, through the pens of ordinary people, the conditions in Württemberg which led to emigration and the sweep of American history from the 1850s to the nominal end of the frontier in 1890. In addition, Once We Were Strangers provides the unusual opportunity to follow a German immigrant family for an extended period, almost from cradle to grave. Using remarkably rare documentary evidence, Allen explores the largely untold story of German assimilation, uncovering the pressures the Lodholzes faced and how they responded to the antebellum Midwest.

This family's story is full of hardship, endurance, joys, and sorrows, and is interwoven with the history of westward expansion, German migration, and Kansas, with a particular emphasis on German settlement patterns prior to the Civil War.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: University Press of Kansas
• Seitenzahl: 352
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. Juni 2024
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780700636327
• Artikelnr.: 75674746

Autorenporträt

Roberta Reb Allen holds a master's in history from the University of Chicago and is a retired professional in education.

Inhaltsangabe

* Preface
* Acknowledgments
* Introduction
* 1. Coming to America: From Ebhausen to Terryville, Connecticut,
1819–57
* 2. The Journey West: Michigan, Illinois, Iowa, Nebraska, and Kansas,
1857–58
* 3. Life in Kansas and Connecticut, 1859–61
* 4. War, Gold, Growth, Death, and Trouble, 1861–73
* 5. Change, Tragedy, and the Female Frontier in Marshall County,
1874–90
* Epilogue: The Lodholzes, the Rebs, and the German Immigrant
Experience—The Story Continues
* Appendix A. Legal and Illegal Emigration
* Appendix B. Total Population and German-Born by County: 1860 Federal
Census
* Appendix C. German-Born Place of Birth by County: 1860 Federal Census
* Appendix D. German-Born Population, County and Township Statistics by
Category: 1860 Federal Census
* Appendix E. Number of German-Born by Page: 1860 Federal Census
* Appendix F. Kansas State Census Non-Population Schedule 2:
Foreign-Born by County and Township for Year Ending May 1, 1865
* Notes
* Index