The Adelsverein Trilogy, now combined in a single hardbound
edition, is a saga of family and community loyalties, and the challenge
of building a new life on the hostile frontier. They came from Germany
to Texas in 1847, under the auspices of the "Mainzer Adelsverein" - the
society of noblemen of Mainz, who tried 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.
Hardcover book in good condition.