German Settlements in Texas Hill Country

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	• The German Settlement of the Texas Hill Country Jefferson Morgenthaler Mockingbird Books, 2007 - 199 pages average customer review:based on 4 reviews view larger image
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Wonderful Texas Hill Country History

After reading, and thoroughly enjoying one of Mr. Morgenthaler's other books (Boerne...), I bought this also. No disappoinment.

The first sentence of his introduction says it all...
"The Texas Hill Country is the sweet spot of Texas..." It both portrays his love of the Hill Country, and states an inarguable fact.

His engaging writing style makes it a delight. There is a lot more to the Hill Country than The Alamo and LBJ. Very rich stories told in an entertaining way.

Another wonderful book by Morgenthaler about a wonderful land and people.

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Long overdue Texas Hill Country history

The Hill Country is considered by many Texans to be the sweet spot of Texas. This new account of the settlement of the Hill Country by German immigrants vividly portrays the mass influx that more than doubled the population of then West Texas in little more than a year.

This remarkable story of these colonists--whose ideals and culture ultimately spawned today's German-Texan vernacular architecture, a tradition of Hill Country sausage-making, and lingering turnvereins and schuetzenverins--is well-researched, well-written and quintessentially Texan.

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Thank you, Jeff

Jeff has produced another book that very clearly gives us a vivid look at the background of why and how our ancestors settled the Texas Hill Country. THANK YOU! Art Wilson

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 about the hardships these people suffered, but survived. It helped me to understand why these people seemed so distant and different, from the way of life I was exposed to in Alabama.
NH

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This is the story of the founding of New Braunfels, Fredericksburg, Boerne, Comfort, and the other German settlements of the Texas Hill Country.

Refugees from economic and social strife in Germany, followed by idealistic communalists and liberal political refugees, came to the Hill County looking for freedom and opportunity. Landing on the windswept shores of Matagorda Bay, they traced a path across the plains, seeking a future in the hills beyond. There they found a raw, untamed realm where few but Comanches dared go.

Reaching for a promised land beyond the Llano River, the earliest immigrants soon realized that their dream was beyond their grasp, and had no choice but to adapt to the realities of the Texas frontier. Some fared well. Others succumbed to disease, injury, hunger and violence. Most stayed, but some retreated to less challenging locales. A remarkable few established outposts of intellectual fervor in pioneer settlements, debating the great ideas of the day in drafty log cabins.

Bringing with them traditions and perspectives rooted in the feudal and despotic European past, the Germans learned to adjust to Texan and American notions, only to find themselves divided by the great controversy over slavery and secession.

This is a story of hardy, industrious people transplanted into the most challenging of circumstances. It is a story of Texan pioneers.

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