
America is a nation of immigrants, of journeys. Yet few people today know the facts of where their ancestors originated or why they came here. This book tells the story of Peter Hasselbacher. Born in 1759 in a small kingdom in what is now Germany, Peter came to America as a soldier...

Peter Hasselbacher started life as the third son of a woodworking family in a small village in the small German state of Ansbach. Growing up in a feudal world where people rarely traveled more than 25 miles from their birthplace, he was caught up in the turbulence of the American...