The German Settlement of the Texas Hill Country - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The German Settlement of the Texas Hill Country write by Jefferson Morgenthaler. This book was released on 2016-07-01. The German Settlement of the Texas Hill Country available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This is the story of the founding of New Braunfels, Fredericksburg, Boerne, Comfort and the other German settlements of the Texas Hill Country. Refugees from economic and social strife in Germany, followed by idealistic communalists and liberal political refugees, came to the Hill Country looking for freedom and opportunity. Landing on the windswept shores of Matagorda Bay, they traced a path across the plains, seeking a future in the hills beyond. There they found a raw, untamed realm where few but Comanches dared go. Reaching for a promised land beyond the Llano River, the earliest immigrants soon realized that their dream was beyond their grasp, and had no choice but to adapt to the realities of the Texas frontier. Some fared well. Others succumbed to disease, injury, hunger and violence. Most stayed, but some retreated to less challenging locales. A remarkable few established outposts of intellectual fervor in pioneer settlements, debating the great ideas of the day in drafty log cabins. Bringing with them traditions and perspectives rooted in the feudal and despotic European past, the Germans learned to adjust to Texan and American notions, only to find themselves divided by the great controversy over slavery and secession. This is a story of hardy, industrious people transplanted into the most challenging of circumstances. It is a story of Texan pioneers.
The Germans in Texas
The Germans in Texas - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Germans in Texas write by Gilbert Giddings Benjamin. This book was released on 1909. The Germans in Texas available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
The History of the German Settlements in Texas 1831-1861
The History of the German Settlements in Texas 1831-1861 - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The History of the German Settlements in Texas 1831-1861 write by Rudloph Leopold Biesele. This book was released on 2008-12-01. The History of the German Settlements in Texas 1831-1861 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
A New Land Beckoned
A New Land Beckoned - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook A New Land Beckoned write by Chester William Geue. This book was released on 1966. A New Land Beckoned available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In this volume, using the best research techniques of the historian--that of going to the source documents--Chester W. and Ethel H. Geue set out to better understand the German movement to Texas.
Nassau Plantation
Nassau Plantation - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Nassau Plantation write by James C. Kearney. This book was released on 2010. Nassau Plantation available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In the 1840s an organization of German noblemen, the Mainzner Adelsverein, attempted to settle thousands of German emigrants on the Texas frontier. Nassau Plantation, located near modern-day Round Top, Texas, in northern Fayette County, was a significant part of this story. No one, however, has adequately documented the role of the slave plantation or given a convincing explanation of the Adelsverein from the German point of view. James C. Kearney has studied a wealth of original source material (much of it in German) to illuminate the history of the plantation and the larger goals and motivation of the Adelsverein, both in Texas and in Germany. Moreover, this new study highlights the problematic relationship of German emigrants to slavery. Few today realize that the society's original colonization plan included ownership and operation of slave plantations. Ironically, the German settlements the society later established became hotbeds of anti-slavery and anti-secessionist sentiment. Responding to criticism in Germany, the society declared its colonies to be "slave free zones" in 1845. This act thrust the society front and center into the complicated political landscape of Texas prior to annexation. James A. Mayberry, among others, suspected an English-German conspiracy to flood the state with anti-slavery immigrants and delivered a fiery speech in the legislature denouncing the society. In the 1850s the plantation became a magnet for German immigration into Fayette and Austin Counties. In this connection, Kearney explores the role and influence of Otto von Roeder, a largely neglected but important Texas-German. Another chapter deals with the odyssey of the extended von Rosenberg family, who settled on the plantation in 1850 and helped to elevate the nearby town of Round Top into a regional center of culture and education. Many members of the family subsequently rose to positions of leadership and influence in Texas. Several notable personalities graced the plantation--Carl Prince of Solms-Braunfels, Johann Otto Freiherr von Meusebach, botanist F. Lindheimer, and the renowned naturalist Dr. Ferdinand Roemer, to name a few. Dramatic events also occurred at the plantation, including a deadly shootout, a successful escape by two slaves (documented in an unprecedented way), and litigation over ownership that wound its way to both the Texas Supreme Court and the U.S. Supreme Court.
