John Charles Beales's Rio Grande Colony - Letters by Eduard Ludecus, a German Colonist, to Friends in Germany

Informationen zum Autor LOUIS E. BRISTER, Professor Emeritus of German, Department of Modern Languages, Texas State University, is the author of several journal articles and books, including In Mexican Prisons: The Journal of Eduard Harkort , 1832-1834 . He lives in San Marcos, Texas. Klappentext A collection of letters that provides an account of the colonists' journey to the Rio Grande from New York City harbor and their labors to establish a settlement there on Las Moras Creek. It narrates how the carpenters among the colonists fashioned a cannon of oak which they successfully fired once to warn off hostile Indians in the area. Zusammenfassung A collection of letters that provides an account of the colonists' journey to the Rio Grande from New York City harbor and their labors to establish a settlement there on Las Moras Creek. It narrates how the carpenters among the colonists fashioned a cannon of oak which they successfully fired once to warn off hostile Indians in the area.

Product details

• Authors: Louis E. (EDT) Brister, Eduard Ludecus
• Assisted by: Louis E. Brister (Editor), Louis E. Brister (Translation)
• Publisher: Texas A&M University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.05.2008
• EAN: 9780876112342
• ISBN: 978-0-87611-234-2
• No. of pages: 261
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 229 mm x 25 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous