Library Record
Metadata
Title |
The Galveston dispatches |
Title added entry |
A Swiss missionary's account of nineteenth-century Texas |
Author |
Rogers, Clay |
Author added entry |
translations by Fred Huddleston |
Call# |
921 GLO |
Accession number |
2024.10 |
Summary |
"In 1855, Friedrich Gloor was just nineteen when he was sent from Basel, Switzerland, halfway around the world to teach at the First German Lutheran Church school in Galveston, Texas. He spent the next eleven years writing letters to his family about a place that was very differnet from his Swiss home." His letters give a personal story of life in Galveston in the mid-nineteenth century. |
Published Date |
2025 |
Language |
English |
Physical Description |
142 p. : illus. ; 23 cm. |
Subjects |
Lutheran Church--History--Texas |
Search Terms |
First Evangelical Lutheran Church, Galveston, Texas. Lutheran Church--History--Texas |
Classification |
Lutheran Church--History--Texas |
People |
Gloor, Friedrich Spittler, Christian Friedrich Wendt, Heinrich |