Wisconsin German Land and Life Book

Contributors

Preface

Joseph C. Salmons

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Robert C. Ostergren and Heike Bungert

Part I: The Premigration Situation

1. "Aus dem Wiedischen Land": Emigration from the Westerwald to Wisconsin

Anke Ortlepp

2. Before Cross Plains: The Immigrants from the Cologne Bay

Ulrich Sänger

3. Using Archival Resources in Germany for Research Focused on Emigration from the Rhineland in the Nineteenth Century

Ute Langer

Part II: The Migration Process

4. A Geographical Perspective on Nineteenth-Century German Immigration to Wisconsin

Timothy Bawden

5. The Wisconsin Commissioner of Emigration 1852-1855: An Experiment in Social and Economic Engineering and Its Impact on German Immigration to Wisconsin

Johannes Strohschänk and William G. Thiel

6. The Story of German Settlement in the Forests and on the Prairies of Wisconsin

Scott A. Moranda

7. Truthful Letters and Irresistible Wanderlust: The Emigration from Rhenish Hesse to Wisconsin

Helmut Schmal

Part III: The Experience with the Land in Wisconsin

8. "Farm, so heißt in Amerika ein Gut": Land and Agriculture in a Westerwald Settlement in Wisconsin

Kevin Neuberger

9. The Borders of the Holyland of East-Central Wisconsin

M. Beth Schlemper

10. Agriculture in the New World: A Comparative Analysis of Rhenish Prussians and Other Immigrant Groups in Cross Plains, Wisconsin

Suzanne Townley

A Transcontinental Regional Perspective on Migration: A Concluding Word

Cora Lee Kluge and Joseph C. Salmons

Index