Excerpt from The Missouri Historical Review, Vol. 12: October, 1917-July, 1918
Bericht ueber eine Reise nach den westlichen Staaten Nordamerikas his skillful pen mingled fact and fiction, interwove experience and imagination, pictured the freedom of the forest and Of democratic institutions in con trast with the social restrictions and political embarrassments Of Europe. This singular book passed thru three editions and many thousands Of Germans pondered over its contents. When the rulers of the then politically disrupted German states refused to give their subjects the freedom and aid which they felt entitled to, innumerable resolutions were made to cross the ocean and build for the present and for future generations happy homes on the far-famed Missouri.
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