NORTH AMERICA, PARTICULARLY TEXAS IN THE YEAR 1849: A TRAVEL ACCOUNT: A Book for Emigrants, Especially for persons Enthusiastic about Emigration
by Steinert, Wilhelm
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Dallas: DeGolyer Library & William P. Clements Center for Southwest Studies / Southern Methodist University , 1999 (1850). 1st English Translated Edition. Hardcover. FINE.. Translated from the German by Gilbert J. Jordan, and eddited by Terry G. Jordan-Bychkov. The Library of Texas Number Five; designed by W. Thomas Taylor, printed on coated stock in an edition of 500 copies, color vignette title page, 206pp., notes, index. Gilt-stamped black cloth over green patterned boards.
"Steinert's journal describes a grand odyssey and adventure of almost Homeric dimensions, negatively impressed by most of what he observed, Steinert concluded that emigration to Texas was inadvisable." - From the Editor's Preface. One of his related travels took him on a trip from New Braunfels, to San Antonio and Castroville.
"Steinert's journal describes a grand odyssey and adventure of almost Homeric dimensions, negatively impressed by most of what he observed, Steinert concluded that emigration to Texas was inadvisable." - From the Editor's Preface. One of his related travels took him on a trip from New Braunfels, to San Antonio and Castroville.
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- Maggie Lambeth
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 9121
- Title
- NORTH AMERICA, PARTICULARLY TEXAS IN THE YEAR 1849: A TRAVEL ACCOUNT
- Author
- Steinert, Wilhelm
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - FINE.
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st English Translated Edition
- Publisher
- DeGolyer Library & William P. Clements Center for Southwest Studies / Southern Methodist University
- Place of Publication
- Dallas
- Date Published
- 1999 (1850)
- Keywords
- Fine Press; Germans; Texas
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