{"product_id":"maria-von-bluchers-corpus-christi-maria-augusta-von-blucher-9781603442237","title":"Maria Von Bl?her's Corpus Christi: Letters from the South Texas Frontier, 1849-1879 Volume 5","description":"In 1849, a young German bride and her husband stepped off a ship in Corpus Christi Bay to establish their home in the new frontier settlement. For the next three decades Maria von Bl?her wrote letters home describing the hardships of droughts and Indian and bandit raids, the chaos of the American Civil War, the discomforts of pioneer living, the joys and heartbreaks of family life, and the development of a town that her descendants would help to build into a thriving city. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eHer letters record above all the woman's side of pioneer life. Although they offer insight into political events and economic developments in Germany, the United States, and South Texas, their greater value lies in the picture they paint of the deprivations, cruel hardships, sacrifice, and dangers faced in everyday life. Maria's letters stand as a personal account of the pioneer experience and an elegant testimony to the role played by Germans in the settlement of South Texas. They provide an intimate look inside the homes and ranches, the schools and farmyards, the stores and churches of early Corpus Christi. They examine families and friendships, communities, congregations, and social unions. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eMaria von Bl?her's Corpus Christi\u003c\/i\u003e Bruce S. Cheeseman has edited and annotated more than two hundred of the nine hundred letters that are held in the von Bl?her family's papers on deposit at the Special Collections and Archives of the Mary and Jeff Bell Library at Texas A\u0026amp;M University-Corpus Christi. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn her life and in her letters, Maria von Bl?her joined all of the courageous pioneer women who helped to lay the foundations of Texas communities. These letters unerringly draw a Texas landscape that is gone forever.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Maria Von Bl?her\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1603442235\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781603442237\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Texas A\u0026amp;M University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/28\/2010\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 320\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.05lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.03h x 6.03w x 0.96d","brand":"Maria Von Bl?her","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43979324915967,"sku":"9781603442237","price":23.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_d2d39b15-1910-45b1-b900-07637abadd7d.jpg?v=1683244957","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/maria-von-bluchers-corpus-christi-maria-augusta-von-blucher-9781603442237","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}