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Record Nr.

UNINA9910460869403321

Autore

Dunt Detlef

Titolo

Journey to Texas, 1833 / / Detlef Dunt ; translated from the German by Anders Saustrup ; edited and with an introduction by James C. Kearney and Geir Bentzen ; design by Lindsay Starr

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Austin, Texas : , : University of Texas Press, , 2015

©2015

ISBN

0-292-76836-2

Edizione

[First edition.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (192 p.)

Disciplina

976.4/03

Soggetti

Germans - Texas

Electronic books.

Texas Description and travel

Texas Emigration and immigration

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; An Introduction (James C. Kearney and Geir Bentzen); Journey to Texas, Including Information about This Country, for Germans Intending to Go to America. (Detlef Dunt;  translated by Anders Saustrup); Preface; Introduction.; Departure from Oldenburg for New York by way of Bremerhaven, with Pertinent Observations. Report of a Letter from an Oldenburg Man in Texas. Description of New York, etc.; Departure from New York for New Orleans. Description of This City. Observation on the Most Essential Needs of the Colonist in Texas.

Travel from New Orleans to Brazoria in Texas. Staying There and at Varner's Creek Departure for San Felipe and Mill Creek. Observations Concerning These Localities.; Further Observations Concerning Texas. Report on the Most Essential Parts of the Colonization Law and the Constitutional Acts.; Some Observations Concerning the Quality of the Soil and the Procedures Followed in Agriculture and Horticulture.; The Author's Return Trip to Germany.; Postscript; Appendix 1: Louise Ernst Stöhr (Anders Saustrup); Appendix 2: Caroline Ernst von Hinueber (Anders Saustrup)

Appendix 3: Wolters-Achenbach (Anders Saustrup)Appendix 4:



Nomenclature of Measures, Weights, Currency, and Other Terms of Designation (Anders Saustrup); Early German Literature about Texas and Detlef Dunt's Place in It: A Bibliographical Essay (James C. Kearney); Chronological Bibliography of Nineteenth-Century German Works That Discuss or Mention Texas (James C. Kearney)