| Book Review | The Western Historical Quarterly, 37.4

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| Book Review | The Western Historical Quarterly, 37.4 | The History Cooperative

*Germans in the Southwest, 1850–1920*. By Tomas Jaehn. (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2005. xii + 242 pp. Illustrations, charts, appendix, notes, bibliography, index. $24.95.)
Images of transplanted German culture are easily recognizable in places like Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, or Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Almost always these images are framed by a landscape of verdant hills and forests that are strangely reminiscent of Bavaria or Baden-Wüerttemberg. But traces of German immigrant culture also can be found in the American Southwest, a land of majestic red-colored mesas and shimmering turquoise skies.	1
Tomas Jaehn, a native of Germany who now works as a library curator at the Palace of the Governors in Santa Fe, New Mexico, provides us with a fascinating and insightful look at the German presence in the southwestern United States. This is a subject that has received very little attention, and it is to the author's credit that he has amassed such a wealth of information. (More than 140 pages of his book are devoted to bibliographic notes and other supplementary material.) Even more impressive is the engaging and carefully organized way that Jaehn presents the results of his research.	. . .

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