The cabin book: or, sketches of life in Texas

Sealsfield, Charles, 1793-1864

The cabin book: or, sketches of life in Texas

Description

This is an English translation of the German text, which is a historical novel about the creation of the Republic of Texas. It consists of a series of sketches that depict the new Republic of Texas as a land of opportunity for immigrants.

Physical Description

46 p. ; 24 cm.

Creation Information

Sealsfield, Charles, 1793-1864 & Mersch, Ch. Fr. 1844.

Context

This book is part of the collection entitled: Texas Cultures Online and was provided by the UT San Antonio Libraries Special Collections to The Portal to Texas History, a digital repository hosted by the UNT Libraries. It has been viewed 1416 times. More information about this book can be viewed below.

Author

Sealsfield, Charles, 1793-1864 Postl, Carl Anton

Translator

Mersch, Ch. Fr.

Publisher

J. Winchester & Co.
Publisher Info: J. Winchester, New World Press, 30 Ann-Street.

Place of Publication: New York, New York

Provided By

UT San Antonio Libraries Special Collections

UTSA Libraries Special Collections seeks to build, preserve and provide access to our distinctive research collections documenting the diverse histories and development of San Antonio and South Texas. Our collecting priorities include the history of women and gender in Texas, the history of Mexican Americans, activists/activism, the history of the African American and LGBTQ communities in our region, the Tex-Mex food industry, and urban planning.

Titles

Main Title: The cabin book: or, sketches of life in Texas
Added Title: Part one

Description

This is an English translation of the German text, which is a historical novel about the creation of the Republic of Texas. It consists of a series of sketches that depict the new Republic of Texas as a land of opportunity for immigrants.

Physical Description

46 p. ; 24 cm.

Notes

The author is incorrectly identified as "Seatsfield".

This is only the first part of a three-part novel.

Historical note about this book:

"The Cabin Book, which helped to motivate the Adelsverein and encouraged German migration to Texas, depicts a land both promising and dangerous, inhabited by legendary men, where 'you sow nails at night, and find horseshoes in the morning.' The work was immensely popular and remained one of the most widely read books in Texas throughout the nineteenth century. Highly derivative of the anonymous A Visit to Texas (1834), Sealsfield's heroic novel was the first important discussion of Texas in the German language; coupled with William Kennedy's Goethean Texas: The Rise, Progress, and Prospects of the Republic of Texas, which appeared the same year, it presents Texas as a rich field of opportunities. Although often considered overwhelmingly exuberant and optimistic, with a heavy admixture of manifest destiny, the book also warns that change and progress can be costly, even deadly, in personal terms. Some learned immigrants during Sealsfield's day took both the encouragement and the admonitions to heart. Approximately 100 printings of the novel, either as complete or revised editions or as excerpts in at least five languages, attest to its lasting appeal."
Glen E. Lich, "POSTL, CARL ANTON," Handbook of Texas Online (http://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/fpods), accessed August 15, 2011. Published by the Texas State Historical Association.

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Language

English

Item Type

Book

Identifier

Unique identifying numbers for this book in the Portal or other systems.

OCLC: 06300769
Call Number: PT2516 .S4C3513
Library of Congress Control Number: 08-6425
Archival Resource Key: ark:/67531/metapth202838
Archival Resource Key: ark:/67531/metapth202838

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Collections

This book is part of the following collection of related materials.

Texas Cultures Online

Texas Cultures Online features local history materials from eighteen institutions depicting the diverse cultures of Texas during the 19th and 20th centuries. Funding provided by the Amon Carter Foundation.

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