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European Immigrants in the American West
A collection of articles examining the histories and impact of European immigrants to the West.
Family, Church, and Market
Loewen examines how the Mennonites' social structure and life goals accommodated societal changes and tells of three generations for whom the farm family was the primary social unit. The group's strategies of cultural continuity dictated that they adapt sensitively and carefully to the market economy and the outside world. Photos. Maps.
The Kleine Gemeinde Historical Series, Vol. 5: Pioneers and Pilgrims. The Mennonite Kleine Gemeinde in Manitoba, Nebraska, and Kansas, 1874-1882
The largest single collection of published source material on the Russian Mennonites available today, these seven volumes include much genealogical and historical data on the Mennonite Kleine Gemeinde in Man., Nebr., and Kans. (604pp. index. D.F. Publications, 1990.)
Littlefield Lands
The phenomenon of colonization by big land companies, common throughout the history of the United States, came late to the Panhandle-Plains of West Texas. Ranchers held sway there up into the 20th century. Then, realizing that the future followed the plow, they, joined by business owners and speculators, founded towns on their land, competed for railroad connections, provided irrigation wells and other improvements, and engaged in a variety of advertising activities to interest prospective settlers and to sell the land to farmers at a profit. Trainloads of such "prospectors" were brought in to tour the land; and salesmen of all kinds roamed all the more settled states painting enticing pictu...
Profile of the Mennonite Kleine Gemeinde, 1874
Genealogical and passenger list information about the two hundred families, members of the Mennonite Kleine Gemeinde, who emigrated from settlements in Taurida and Ekaterinoslav Gubernii︠a︡, Russia (now in the Ukraine, U. S. S. R.) to Manitoba, Canada and Nebraska and Kansas in the United States.
From the Inside Out
Historian Royden Loewen has brought together selections from diaries kept by 21 Mennonites in Canada between 1863 and 1929, some translated from German for the first time. By skillfully comparing and contrasting a wide cross-section of lives, Loewen shows how these diaries often turn the hidden contours of household and community "inside out." The writers featured were ordinary rural people: young women and grandmothers, rural preachers and landless householders. They include a teenaged boy who immigrated from Russia to Manitoba in 1875 as well as a successful merchant, a traveling evangelist, and a devout, conservative church elder. An elderly grandfather recounted the daily circuit of his ...
