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John Charles Beales's Rio Grande Colony - Brister (2008, HB+DC, new in wrapper)
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- Condition
- Brand New: A new, unread, unused book in perfect condition with no missing or damaged pages. See all condition definitionsopens in a new window or tab
- ISBN
- 9780876112342
- Publication Year
- 2008
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Book Title
- John Charles Beales's Rio Grande Colony : Letters by Eduard Ludecus, a German Colonist, to Freinds in Germany in 1833-1834, Recounting His Journey, Trials, and Observations in Early Texas
- Item Length
- 9in
- Publisher
- Texas STATE Historical Association
- Genre
- Biography & Autobiography, Travel, History
- Topic
- United States / South / West South Central (Ar, La, Ok, Tx), Adventurers & Explorers, United States / State & Local / Southwest (Az, NM, Ok, Tx)
- Item Width
- 6in
- Item Weight
- 18.4 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 250 Pages
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This collection of letters, written by a young German colonist in Dr. John Charles Beales's ill-fated colony Dolores , provides an almost daily account of the colonists' journey to the Rio Grande from New York City harbor and their labors to establish a settlement there on Las Moras Creek. Ludecus recounts in his letters the colonists' efforts to provide protection from Indian attacks by constructing around the settlement a high, thorny barrier of mesquite branches and cactus cleared from the land they wished to plant. He narrates how the carpenters among the colonists fashioned a cannon of oak which they successfully fired once to warn off hostile Indians in the area. His record of life in the colony emphasizes the deprivation suffered by the colonists. From the day of their arrival at the colony site to the day most of the colonists abandoned the settlement in desperation, Ludecus's letters are filled with descriptions of the colonists' hardships and frustration as they tried to cope with an almost total lack of stone and timber in the vicinity of Dolores for constructing houses, outbuildings, and fencing around their young crops. Eduard Ludecus's letters are also a source of valuable information about life and culture in pre-revolutionary Texas. His letters are one of just a handful of eyewitness reports about the early Texas frontier. His observations are those of a young, well-educated German merchant who had traveled from the urbane environment of Weimar, the center of art and literature in Germany in the early nineteenth century, to the raw, hostile environment of Texas. As a result, many of his remarks seem to have been recorded in wide-eyed awe of his new environment. Ludecus's letters are written with a vivid directness often lacking in the recollections of such well-known narrators as John C. Duval, Noah Smithwick, and John Holland Jenkins. Ludecus's narrative style is so vivid, so lively that the reader often feels as if he were sharing the narrator's experiences and observations not as a reader, but as a companion.
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Publisher
Texas STATE Historical Association
ISBN-10
0876112343
ISBN-13
9780876112342
eBay Product ID (ePID)
64163516
Product Key Features
Book Title
John Charles Beales's Rio Grande Colony : Letters by Eduard Ludecus, a German Colonist, to Freinds in Germany in 1833-1834, Recounting His Journey, Trials, and Observations in Early Texas
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
United States / South / West South Central (Ar, La, Ok, Tx), Adventurers & Explorers, United States / State & Local / Southwest (Az, NM, Ok, Tx)
Publication Year
2008
Genre
Biography & Autobiography, Travel, History
Number of Pages
250 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
9in
Item Width
6in
Item Weight
18.4 Oz
Additional Product Features
Lc Classification Number
F389.L93a3 2008
Copyright Date
2008
Target Audience
Trade
Lccn
2008-005568
Dewey Decimal
976.4/4
Dewey Edition
22
Illustrated
Yes
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