"Once We Were Strangers is both an immigrant family saga and a scholarly exploration of larger social, political, and economic events of the day with a particular emphasis on German American and Kansas history. Starting out in the small village of Ebhausen in the Black Forest of the Kingdom of W???urttemberg in what is now Germany, the book chronicles the fortunes of the Lodholzes, who journey across the Atlantic eventually to settle on the plains of the Kansas Territory, in Marshall County. The narrative is based on close ...
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"Once We Were Strangers is both an immigrant family saga and a scholarly exploration of larger social, political, and economic events of the day with a particular emphasis on German American and Kansas history. Starting out in the small village of Ebhausen in the Black Forest of the Kingdom of W???urttemberg in what is now Germany, the book chronicles the fortunes of the Lodholzes, who journey across the Atlantic eventually to settle on the plains of the Kansas Territory, in Marshall County. The narrative is based on close to 200 family letters and documents. It is a family saga full of hardship, endurance, joys and sorrows. Interwoven with the history of westward expansion, of German emigration, and of Kansas, the story chronicles, through the pens of ordinary people, an intimate view of the sweep of American history from the 1850s to the nominal end of the frontier in 1890"--
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