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The German Settlement of the Texas Hill Country

4 reviews
Jefferson Morgenthaler

Mockingbird Books, 2007

German Settlements in Texas Hill Country
I highly recomend this book for anyone who is interested in the early German settlers who came to Texas from Germany. I bought the book because I was married to a man from Fischer, TX, and I am in the process of learning all I can because I am working on geneology of his family, who came and settled in the Hill Country. I learned a lot by reading this book. It is well writen, and very in depth ...

La Junta de los Rios

1 review
Jefferson Morgenthaler

Mockingbird Books, 2007

Crisp, clean, compelling
I heard the author's educational and entertaining presentation at the Center for Big Bend Studies' annual conference in November. The presentation was based on his new book, La Junta de los Rios. La Junta chronicles the history of a Texas borderlands community located at the junction where the Rio Grande meets the Rio Conchos from its ancient origins to about 1835. I am not a borderlands ...

The River Has Never Divided Us: A Border History of La Junta de los Rios (Jack and Doris Smothers Series in ...

1 review
Jefferson Morgenthaler

University of Texas Press, 2004

excellent effort
Excellent coverage of the Texas/Mexico border at "La Junta," an area that is today Presidio, Texas, and Ojinaga, Mexico. Strength of the book is the historical La Junta. Modern corruption and drug dealing com e in at the end, but deserved more ... or less of the narrative. Excellent scholarship and a writing style that captivates the reader.

Boerne, Settlement on the Cibolo

1 review
Jefferson Morgenthaler

Mockingbird Books, 2005

Great little book.
Excellent and engaging history of a Texas Hill country town - Boerne -that mirrors the history of this beautiful area of this German settled area. Morgenthaler has a way of putting words together that kept me engaged in what could have been a very dry book. Excellent. Be sure to read the epilogue - after you've read the book. There are also pages of photographs as well for those that ...