German Yankee

by Karen Schutte

Book Overview

GERMAN YANKEE is based on the lives of Karen's paternal great grandparents, John and Elizabeth Westerhoff. John Westerhoff left Hamburg Germany in 1858 to avoid further service in the Prussian cavalry. He arrived in the predominately German settlement of Warsaw, Illinois, just as civil unrest was raging across the United States, particularly across the Mississippi River in Missouri. Because of the state's strategic importance along the much-traveled...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0990409627
• ISBN13: 9780990409625
• Release Date: September 2018
• Publisher: Green Spring Publishing
• Length: 430 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.0" x 9.0"