Adelsverein - Book One

Description:

First of a trilogy of historical novels about the mid-19 German settlements in the central Texas Hill Country. Subsequent volume *Adelsverein-The Sowing* covers the violent Civil War period, and *Adelsverein-The Harvesting*, the post-war decade and the rise of the Texas cattle industry.

subjects: Fiction,  History,  Adelsverein,  German Americans,  Frontier and pioneer life,  Emigration and immigration,  German American families,  Germans,  Fiction, historical, general,  Frontier and pioneer life, fiction,  Texas, fiction,  United states, history, civil war, 1861-1865, fiction

People: German immigrants,  Sam Houston,  John Coffee Hays,  Prince Karl of Solms-Braunfels,  Sam Maverick,  John O. Meusebach

Places: San Antonio,  Goliad,  Galveston and IndianolaTexas,  Abilene Kansas,  Ulm and Bremen Germany,  London England,  Monterrey Mexico,  Comancheria,  California,  United States

Times: 19th century from 1836 to 1876