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Forster, Walter Otto.

Zion on the Mississippi : the settlement of the Saxon Lutherans in Missouri 1839-1841 / by Walter O. Forster. - 606 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

An expansion and revision of "the study ... originally prepared as a doctoral dissertation at Washington University in Saint Louis." An expansion and revision of "the study...originally prepared as a doctoral dissertation at Washington University in Saint Louis."

Bibliography: pages 584-594.

European background -- Rise of Stephanism in Saxony, 1810-1837 -- Transformation of Stephanism into separatism -- Development of the emigration idea in Stephanite separatism -- Planning an American Zion, 1837-1838 -- Organization of the Auswanderungs-Gesellschaft -- Parting and departing -- The voyage from Bremerhaven to St. Louis, 1838-39 -- The Saxons and their new home -- The forerunners of the Forty-Eighters in the West -- Establishing the Episcopacy -- First contact with religious conditions in the West -- Problems of communal living in St. Louis -- Founding the Perry County Colony -- Discrediting Stephan's leadership -- Stephan's expulsion from the Gesellschaft -- Retrenchment and reappraisal -- Disorganization and reorganization, 1839-1841 -- Zion re-defined.

LCCN: 53009271

Subjects--Personal Names:
Stephan, Martin, 1777-1846.

Subjects--Corporate Names:
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod--History.

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Lutherans--Missouri.
Germans--Missouri.

Dewey Class. No.: 284.1322 Forrester