Comanches and Germans on the Texas Frontier: The Ethnology of Heinrich Berghaus

by Christopher J. Wickham and Daniel J. Gelo

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Winner, 2018 Presidio La Bahia Award, sponsored by the Sons of the Republic of Texas

In 1851, an article appeared in a German journal, Geographisches Jahrbuch (Geographic Yearbook), that sought to establish definitive connections, using language observations, among the Comanches, Shoshones, and Apaches. Heinrich Berghaus's study was based on lexical data gathered by a young German settler in Texas, Emil Kriewitz, and included a groundbreaking...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1623495946
• ISBN13: 9781623495947
• Release Date: January 2018
• Publisher: Texas A&M University Press
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.4" x 9.3"