Translated from German by Regina Beckmann Hurst and Dr. Walter Kamphoefner, professor of history at Texas A&M, these letters vividly describe the author’s odyssey from Germany to New York in 1848 and on to Wisconsin and, finally, to Texas, where he established and expanded what became a major milling company.

Translated by: Regina Beckmann Hurst, Walter D. Kamphoefner
Foreword by: Walter D. Kamphoefner