Adelsverein - The Gathering (The Adelsverein Trilogy, #1) / The Adelsverein Trilogy (ePub)
The frontier would challenge them.Brutal war would test them, in a crucible of fire
But they would endure and build. They would prosper and in the end …They would become Americans.
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From the Old World to the New
The frontier would challenge them.Brutal war would test them, in a crucible of fire
But they would endure and build. They would prosper and in the end …They would become Americans.
The Adelsverein Trilogy is a saga of family and community loyalties, and the challenge of building a new life on the hostile frontier. They come from Germany to Texas in 1847, under the auspices of the "Mainzer Adelsverein" - the society of noblemen of Mainz, who seek to fill a settlement in Texas with German farmers and craftsmen.
Christian "Vati" Steinmetz, the clockmaker of Ulm in Bavaria, has brought his sons and daughters: Magda - passionate and courageous, courted by Carl Becker, a young frontiersman with a dangerous past. Her sister Liesel wants nothing more than to be a good wife to her husband Hansi, a stolid and practical farmer called by circumstances to be something greater, in the boom years of the great cattle ranches. Their brothers Friedrich and Johann, have always been close - in the Civil War, one will wear Union blue, the other Confederate grey homespun - but never forget they are brothers. And finally, there is Vati's adopted daughter Rosalie, whose life ends as it began - in tragedy. But Vati's family will will survive and ultimately triumph. They will make their mark in Texas, their new land.
Adelsverein - It's about love and loss, joy and grief . . . and the sometimes wrenching process of becoming American.
Her first novel, To Truckee's Trail, grew out of a fascination with the California emigrant trail. The Adelsverein Trilogy, and its companion novels - Daughter of Texas, Deep in the Heart, The Quivera Trail, and Sunset & Steel Rails drew on an interest in the German settlement of the Texas Hill Country, and the dramatic sweep of history in the Lone Star State. She has also authored a collection of adventures intended for younger readers, Lone Star Sons, set in the time of the Republic of Texas. With her daughter, Jeanne Hayden, she has also co-authored Chronicles of Luna City, and The Second Chronicle of Luna City, a collection of comic short stories set in present-day small town South Texas. The third volume of Luna City stories is due out in November, 2016, as well as another historical novel about the California Gold Rush -- The Golden Road.
More about her writing is at the websites www.celiahayes.com and www.lunacitytexas.com.
- Autor: Celia Hayes
- 2019, Englisch
- Verlag: Watercress Press
- ISBN-10: 1393464300
- ISBN-13: 9781393464303
- Erscheinungsdatum: 15.08.2019
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