Here is another book which allows us to 'get into the minds of Germans' during the 1800s in the metro-St.Louis area - why they emigrated, the issues they dealt with upon arrival and settlement, attitudes toward government, their influence on business and commerce in the region.... The first three chapters are articles translated from St. Clair County, Illinois' Gustave Koerner 's writings which he published in German: The German Element in the U.S. 1818-1848; followed by an inside look at Gottfried Duden - the man responsible for writing a immigrant's guide extolling the benefits awaiting those who settled in Missouri area. The German contributions up to the present are pulled together with a final chapter by the editor/translator, Dr. Don Heinrich Tolzmann, Director of German-American Studies at the University of Cincinnati http://www.compu-type.net/rengen/stclair/lecture.htm