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"In 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 and bandit raids, the chaos of the American Civil War, the discomforts of pioneer living, the joys and heartbreaks of family life, and the development of a town that her descendants would help to build into a thriving city.".
"Her letters record above all the woman's side of pioneer life. Although they offer insight into political events and economic developments in Germany, the United States, and South Texas, their greater value lies in the picture they paint of the deprivations, cruel hardships, sacrifice, and dangers faced in everyday life. Maria's letters stand as a personal account of the pioneer experience and are an elegant testimony to the role played by Germans in the settlement of South Texas.
They provide an intimate look inside the homes and ranches, the schools and farmyards, the stores and churches of early Corpus Christi. They examine families and friendships, communities, congregations, and social unions.".
"In Maria von Blucher's Corpus Christi Bruce S. Cheeseman has edited and annotated more than two hundred of the nine hundred letters that are held in the von Blucher family's papers on deposit at the Special Collections and Archives of the Mary and Jeff Bell Library at Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi."--BOOK JACKET.
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Correspondence, Social life and customs, German Americans, Frontier and pioneer life, German American women, Women pioneers, Pioneers, Biography, Pionnières, Correspondance, Pionniers, Américaines d'origine allemande, Américains d'origine allemande, Mœurs et coutumes, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY, Historical, HISTORY, State & Local, General, Manners and customs, Regions & Countries - Americas, History & Archaeology, United States Local HistoryPlaces
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Maria von Blücher's Corpus Christi: letters from the South Texas frontier, 1849-1879
2002, Texas A&M University Press
in English
- 1st ed.
158544135X 9781585441358
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