| Book Review | The Western Historical Quarterly, 34.1

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Book Review

German Pioneers on the American Frontier: The Wagners in Texas and Illinois. By Andreas V. Reichstein. (Denton: University of North Texas Press, 2001. xii + 303 pp. Illustrations, appendixes, notes, bibliography, index. $32.95.)

German immigrant stories of the mid-nineteenth century help individualize the aggregate portrait of one of the largest and most prolonged migrations in the history of the United States. Andreas Reichstein examines the experiences of two Wagner brothers from the state of Baden who came to the United States within four years of each other. The author discovered a cache of letters from the immigrant family of Julius while working on a German history of Texas, later finding information about his older brother, Wilhelm, who settled in the Midwest. Book chapters include biographies of the parents, each brother's exit from Germany and life in the United States, and descriptions of some American descendants. The appendix contains a detailed family tree. 1

Genealogists, German history buffs, and historians looking for specific names, locations, and stories will find this book useful. Both brothers initially farmed frontier land, but there the similarity ends. The narratives are noticeably incomplete, perhaps due to chronological and biographical gaps in the letters and oral histories. . . .

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