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- PublisherLandmark Press
- Publication date1976
- ISBN 10 091720400X
- ISBN 13 9780917204005
- BindingHardcover
- Edition number1
- Number of pages198
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Book Description Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. The Golden Free Land: The Reminiscences and Letters of Women on an American Frontier by Crystal Sasse Ragsdale Hardcover Cloth 198 pages. Condition Very Good NO Dust Jacket. Stated First Edition 1976. Beautiful green boards and gold embossing shows off this Clean, tight, square copy with no marks, highlights or bookplates. Book Well kept and carefully stored in unread condition with slight shelf wear. Foxing on edges. Please note this volume was printed on yellow colored paper. Not an ex-library, book club or remainder copy. Dedication by author on splash page following first title page dated May 1991. A collection of rare personal narratives by ten valiant women who helped conquer a strange and hostile American frontier. Printed in his hometown newspaper in Oldenburg, part of the German Confederation, in 1832, Friedrich Ernst's adulatory letter about moving to Texas was widely read at the time and credited for propelling the German immigration wave to prerevolution Texas, settling the "German Belt" from the Coastal Plain to the Hill Country. Some ten thousand Germans immigrated to the region from 1840 to 1850, and by 1860 that number had more than doubled. The Texas climate, Ernst wrote in his letter, resembles that of lower Italy! Wild game are everywhere?Çödeer, bears, turkeys! Vegetables and flowers grow in abundance. Cattle feed freely, leaving you with "hardly three months of real work." The native tribes "are moving about peacefully like Cossacks." The only downside? Maybe a panther here and there, and a few poisonous snakes?Çönothing to worry about, though; hunters walk barefoot without a thought. If this sounds more like fiction being told while the family members roll their eyes behind the storyteller, consider the account written years later by Friedrich's second daughter, Caroline Ernst von Hinueber. Caroline arrived in Texas when she was eleven or twelve years old, among the earliest German children to arrive in Mexican, pro-republic Texas. In her translated recollection, available in Crystal Sasse Ragsdale's book The Golden Free Land, her parents and her four siblings were hardly blooming like roses. Rather, they lived in a doorless, windowless, "miserable little hut, covered with straw and having six sides, which were made out of moss. The roof was by no means water-proof, and we often held an umbrella over our bed when it rained at night, while the cows came and ate the moss." 198 pp. Signed by Author(s). Seller Inventory # 656934
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Book Description hardcover. Condition: Good. Connecting readers with great books since 1972! Used textbooks may not include companion materials such as access codes, etc. May have some wear or writing/highlighting. We ship orders daily and Customer Service is our top priority!. Seller Inventory # S_377304692
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THE GOLDEN FREE LAND
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Book Description HARDCOVER. Condition: NEAR FINE. NO JACKET. 1ST EDITION. AUSTIN, TX: LANDMARK, 1976. 1ST EDITION. NEAR FINE/NO JACKET. AUSTIN, TX: LANDMARK, 1976. 1ST EDITION. NEAR FINE/NO JACKET. AUSTIN, TX: LANDMARK, 1976. 1ST EDITION. NEAR FINE/NO JACKET. SIGNED BY AUTHOR. Landmark Press, Austin, 1976. Book Condition: Near Fine. No Jacket. First Edition stated. Signed by the author on page opposite copyright page. Green cloth w/gilt titles & decoration, pictorial endpapers; no jacket; light shelfwear; Limited edition #27 of 100, signed by the author. The limitation sticker is laid-in. Reminscences of German emigrant women who came to Texas during the middle part of the 19th century. Not remaindered, not ex-library, unmarked, clean, crisp, collectible book. 1ST PRINT. Seller Inventory # L241
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THE GOLDEN FREE LAND: THE REMINISCENCES AND LETTERS OF WOMEN ON AN AMERICAN FRONTIER
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Book Description Green cloth. Condition: Near Fine. No Jacket. First Edition stated. [xviii], 198pp ---- Inscribed signed and dated 5-25-77 by the author on page opposite copyright page ---- Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Inscribed and Signed By the Author. Seller Inventory # 013442
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