The Fredericksubrg Manuscripts, Volume 2 -- Table of Contents

Volume 2: Table of Contents

Lone Star Freedom!

Chronicles of the Germans of the Texas Hill Country
Die Friedrichsburger Manuskripte
The Fredericksburg Manuscripts
by Kenn Knopp

2 MS I. Chronik der Stadt: Chronology of Friedrichsburg, Texas
1. Historical Timelines & Shifting Paradigms… 7
2. The Adelsverein Scheme & the German Republic of West Texas… 32

2 MS II. Erlebnese und Realitaeten: Virtual Realities!
1. The Brig Herschel and the First German Immigrants to Texas… 44
2. Miss Voges Writes to Her Family in Germany… 46
3. William Mogford, a First Founder, Was an Englishman… 54
4. The Undaunted Danish Pioneers of Friedrichsburg… 58
5. Bishop Lyman Wight & His Mormon Angels… 67
6. August Siemering, a Friedrichsburg First Founder, Father of Texas Journalism... 77
7. The Inspiring Life of Carl Hilmar Guenther… 85
8. When John O. Meusebach Lived in Friedrichsburg… 90
9. The Story of Chaino Valverde Marschall von Bieberstein… 93
10. Anna Mebus Martin, First Woman Bank President in the United States… 96
11. Fort Martin Scott, 1848-1853, First Federal Frontier Fort of Texas… 103
12. “Never So Fine a Man” --General Robert E. Lee in the Texas Hill Country… 108
13. The Texas Camel Experiment of 1856… Fort Martin Scott Almost
Became Their Home…112
14. Richard Petri & Hermann Lungkwitz, Hill Country Pioneer Artists… 121
15. Secession & Civil War, 1861-1865, and the New Secession Disease…125
16. Effects of the Civil War… Friedrich Wilhelm von Wrede, Sr. & Jr. … 129
17. Some of the Early Hill Country Militias & Minutemen… 133
18. Elisabet Ney, Germany’s Foremost Sculptor Comes to Texas… 138
19. Jacob Brodbeck, First Man in the World to Fly an Airplane in 1865!… 158
20. The Knopp Family & Foolish Prussian Wars… 162
21. Good Neighbors… the Schreiner Family of Kerr County… 171
22. Ernst Dosch… The Hunter King of the Hill Country… 175

2 MS III. Uniquely Friedrichsburgerisch!
1. Dies und Dass… Stories Heard Around the Stammtisch…181
2. Fritztown Talk…Some of the Germlish Spoken in the Friedrichsburg Area…191
3. Sontagshauese… The Sunday Houses of Friedrichsburg… 200
4. The Grave of the Unknown Lady…206
5. Those Hilarious Sheriff Smokey Klaerner Stories…208
6. The Hack…216
7. The Wiesers of Wuertemberg Find Freedom & Fulfillment in Friedrichsburg…218
8. The Hapsburg Heritage of Franz & Franciska Maxmilian Lange…223
9. The President & the Priest… LBJ & Father Schneider…226
10. The German Ranch Haus Demon & the Double Cross…238

2 MS IV. Friedrichsburg Veranstaltungs Kalendar 1996,
The Calendar of Events for the 150th Anniversary Year… 245