Frizzell, Robert W.,  1947- <br/><br/>
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. 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references (p. 179-191) and index. 
<br/><br/>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. 
<br/><br/> "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. 
<br/><br/><br/>Electronic reproduction. <br/>Palo Alto, Calif. : <br/>ebrary, <br/>2013. <br/>Available via World Wide Web. <br/>Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries. 
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<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Germans--History--Missouri--Lafayette County--19th century.<br/>German Americans--History--Missouri--Lafayette County--19th century.
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Geographic Terms: </label><br/>Lafayette County (Mo.)--History--19th century.<br/>Concordia (Mo.)--History--19th century.<br/>Lafayette County (Mo.)--Emigration and immigration--History--19th century.<br/>Hannover (Germany : Province)--Emigration and immigration--History--19th century.
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<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>F472.L2  / F75 2007eb 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>977.8/4530431