New Braunfels and Fredericksburg — and a treaty with the Comanche that was never broken.
German speech, festivals and stonework persist in the Hill Country to the present.
Terry Jordan's classic study of the nineteenth-century German farming settlement of the Texas Hill Country and its enduring folk culture.
Comprehensive history of Texas covering the Hill Country German settlement of the 1840s-1850s, the Adelsverein colonization scheme, and the Comanche peace treaty — essential era-sweeping context for the germantx record.