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- catalog abstract ""In 1849, a young German bride and her husband stepped off a ship in Corpus Christi Bay to establish their home in the new frontier settlement. For the next three decades Maria von Blucher wrote letters home describing the hardships of droughts and Indian and bandit raids, the chaos of the American Civil War, the discomforts of pioneer living, the joys and heartbreaks of family life, and the development of a town that her descendants would help to build into a thriving city." "Her letters record above all the woman's side of pioneer life. Although they offer insight into political events and economic developments in Germany, the United States, and South Texas, their greater value lies in the picture they paint of the deprivations, cruel hardships, sacrifice, and dangers faced in everyday life. Maria's letters stand as a personal account of the pioneer experience and are an elegant testimony to the role played by Germans in the settlement of South Texas. They provide an intimate look inside the homes and ranches, the schools and farmyards, the stores and churches of early Corpus Christi. They examine families and friendships, communities, congregations, and social unions." "In Maria von Blucher's Corpus Christi Bruce S. Cheeseman has edited and annotated more than two hundred of the nine hundred letters that are held in the von Blucher family's papers on deposit at the Special Collections and Archives of the Mary and Jeff Bell Library at Texas A & M University-Corpus Christi."--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b12400812.
- catalog contributor b12400813.
- catalog coverage "Corpus Christi (Tex.) Biography.".
- catalog coverage "Corpus Christi (Tex.) Social life and customs 19th century.".
- catalog created "c2002.".
- catalog date "2002".
- catalog date "c2002.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c2002.".
- catalog description ""Her letters record above all the woman's side of pioneer life. Although they offer insight into political events and economic developments in Germany, the United States, and South Texas, their greater value lies in the picture they paint of the deprivations, cruel hardships, sacrifice, and dangers faced in everyday life. Maria's letters stand as a personal account of the pioneer experience and are an elegant testimony to the role played by Germans in the settlement of South Texas. They provide an intimate look inside the homes and ranches, the schools and farmyards, the stores and churches of early Corpus Christi. They examine families and friendships, communities, congregations, and social unions."".
- catalog description ""In 1849, a young German bride and her husband stepped off a ship in Corpus Christi Bay to establish their home in the new frontier settlement. For the next three decades Maria von Blucher wrote letters home describing the hardships of droughts and Indian and bandit raids, the chaos of the American Civil War, the discomforts of pioneer living, the joys and heartbreaks of family life, and the development of a town that her descendants would help to build into a thriving city."".
- catalog description ""In Maria von Blucher's Corpus Christi Bruce S. Cheeseman has edited and annotated more than two hundred of the nine hundred letters that are held in the von Blucher family's papers on deposit at the Special Collections and Archives of the Mary and Jeff Bell Library at Texas A & M University-Corpus Christi."--Jacket.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references and index.".
- catalog description "Prussia -- Passage to a new land : America -- Early Corpus Christi : the 1850s -- Civil War -- Reconstruction and redemption : the 1870s -- Epilogue.".
- catalog extent "xxii, 292 p. :".
- catalog hasFormat "Maria von Blücher's Corpus Christi.".
- catalog identifier "158544135X (alk. paper)".
- catalog isFormatOf "Maria von Blücher's Corpus Christi.".
- catalog isPartOf "Canseco-Keck history series ; no. 5".
- catalog issued "2002".
- catalog issued "c2002.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "College Station : Texas A&M University Press,".
- catalog relation "Maria von Blücher's Corpus Christi.".
- catalog spatial "Corpus Christi (Tex.) Biography.".
- catalog spatial "Corpus Christi (Tex.) Social life and customs 19th century.".
- catalog spatial "Texas Corpus Christi".
- catalog spatial "Texas Corpus Christi.".
- catalog subject "976.4/11305/092 B 21".
- catalog subject "Blücher, Maria Augusta von, 1827-1893 Correspondence.".
- catalog subject "F394.C78 B56 2002".
- catalog subject "Frontier and pioneer life Texas Corpus Christi.".
- catalog subject "German American women Texas Corpus Christi Correspondence.".
- catalog subject "German Americans Texas Corpus Christi Social life and customs 19th century.".
- catalog subject "Pioneers Texas Corpus Christi Correspondence.".
- catalog subject "Women pioneers Texas Corpus Christi Correspondence.".
- catalog tableOfContents "Prussia -- Passage to a new land : America -- Early Corpus Christi : the 1850s -- Civil War -- Reconstruction and redemption : the 1870s -- Epilogue.".
- catalog title "Maria von Blücher's Corpus Christi : letters from the South Texas frontier, 1849-1879 / by Maria von Blücher ; edited and annotated by Bruce S. Cheeseman ; foreword by Thomas H. Kreneck.".
- catalog type "Biography. fast".
- catalog type "Records and correspondence. fast".
- catalog type "text".