An Immigrant Miller Picks Texas: The Letters of Carl Hilmar Guenther
(Paperback)
Publishing Details
An Immigrant Miller Picks Texas: The Letters of Carl Hilmar Guenther
By (Author) Regina Beckmann Hurst
Translated by Walter D. Kamphoefner
Foreword by Walter D. Kamphoefner
By (author) Carl Hilmar Guenther
Trinity University Press,U.S.
Trinity University Press,U.S.
4th January 2010
United States
Classifications
General
Non Fiction
Diaries, letters and journals
976.4061092
Physical Properties
Paperback
144
Width 139mm, Height 215mm
212g
Description
Translated from German by Regina Beckmann Hurst and Dr. Walter Kamphoefner, professor of history at Texas A&M, these letters vividly describe the authors 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.
Author Bio
Carl Hilmar Guenther (1826-1902) was a pioneer miller who founded the first flour mill in San Antonio, Texas, C. H. Guenther and Son, which later became Pioneer Flour Mills.
