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PublisherTexas A&M University Press

ISBN-10158544135X

ISBN-139781585441358

eBay Product ID (ePID)27038382796

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Book TitleMaria Von Blucher's Corpus Christi : Letters from the South Texas Frontier, 1849-1879

Number of Pages320 Pages

LanguageEnglish

TopicWomen, United States / South / West South Central (Ar, La, Ok, Tx), United States / State & Local / Southwest (Az, NM, Ok, Tx), United States / Civil War Period (1850-1877)

Publication Year2002

IllustratorYes

GenreTravel, Biography & Autobiography, History

AuthorMaria Von Blücher

Book SeriesCanseco-Keck History Ser.

FormatHardcover

Dimensions

Item Height1 in

Item Weight23.5 Oz

Item Length9.5 in

Item Width6.6 in

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LCCN2001-005015

Reviewsâ€œThis is a fascinating book. Maria von Blucherâ€™s letters are highly informative reading for anyone who is interested in learning about the daily life of a woman and her family in nineteenth-century Texas, particularly from a German perspective. Maria von Blucherâ€™s correspondence can also be viewed as one of the earliest examples of writing produced by a woman who wrote in the German language in Texas. Maria von Blucherâ€™s edited correspondence is a book well worth reading and rereading, and I highly recommend it to anyone interested in the story of the German experience in Texas.â€�-- German-Texan Heritage Society, â€œMariaâ€™s letters add a new voice to story of German Texas immigrants. In addition to being valuable sources of social history, the letters also document the process of language loss and acculturation on the frontier. Letters . . .is a well-organized, beautifully illustrated resource. Bruce Cheeseman selected passages that create a compelling psychological drama in a rich historical setting in an eventful era.â€�--East Texas State Historical Association, "This is a fascinating book. Maria von Blucher's letters are highly informative reading for anyone who is interested in learning about the daily life of a woman and her family in nineteenth-century Texas, particularly from a German perspective. Maria von Blucher's correspondence can also be viewed as one of the earliest examples of writing produced by a woman who wrote in the German language in Texas. Maria von Blucher's edited correspondence is a book well worth reading and rereading, and I highly recommend it to anyone interested in the story of the German experience in Texas."-- German-Texan Heritage Society, "Maria's letters add a new voice to story of German Texas immigrants. In addition to being valuable sources of social history, the letters also document the process of language loss and acculturation on the frontier. Letters . . .is a well-organized, beautifully illustrated resource. Bruce Cheeseman selected passages that create a compelling psychological drama in a rich historical setting in an eventful era."--East Texas State Historical Association

Dewey Edition21

Series Volume Number5

Dewey Decimal976.4/11305/092 B

SynopsisIn 1849, a young German bride and her husband stepped off a ship in Corpus Christi Bay to establish their home in the new frontier settlement. For the next three decades Maria von Blucher wrote letters home describing the hardships of droughts and Indian raids, the chaos of the American Civil War, and the joys and heartbreaks of family life. Her letters record the woman's side of pioneer life and stand as an elegant testimony to the role played by Germans in the settlement of South Texas, while also providing an intimate look at early Corpus Christi. Bruce S. Cheeseman has edited and annotated more than two hundred of the von Blucher family's papers on deposit at the Mary and Jeff Bell Library at Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi. In her life and in her letters, Maria von Blucher joined all of the courageous pioneer women who helped to lay the foundation of Texas communities. These letters unerringly draw a Texas landscape that is gone forever.

LC Classification NumberF394.C78B56 2002