Germans and German-Russians

Belk, Fred R. "The Final Refuge: Kansas and Nebraska Migration of Mennonites From Central Asia After 1884." Kansas Historical Quarterly 40 (Autumn 1974): 379-392.

Carman, J. Neale. "Germans in Kansas." American-German Review 27 (April/May 1961): 4-8.

__________, editor and translator. "German Settlements Along the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway." Kansas Historical Quarterly 28 (Autumn 1962): 310-316. Probable author of essay was C. B. Schmidt, European immigrant agent for AT&SF.

Coburn, Carol K. Life at Four Corners: Religion, Gender, and Education in a German-Lutheran Community, 1868-1945. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1992. A scholarly study of an ethnic community in eastern Kansas (Block, Miami County).

Haury, David A. "German-Russian Immigrants to Kansas and American Politics." Kansas History 3 (Winter 1980): 226-238.

Higgins, Cindy. "Kansas Breweries, 1854-1911." Kansas History 16 (Spring 1993): 2-21. Concentrates on the cultural significance of this industry to the German community and its economic importance in the state prior to state-wide prohibition and the eventual enforcement of the prohibitory law.

__________. Kansas Breweries & Beer, 1854-1911. Eudora, Kans.: Ad Astra Press, 1992. Written for a popular audience, this nicely illustrated volume identifies breweries in 48 Kansas communities.

Keel, William D. "The German Heritage of Kansas: An Introduction." Heritage of the Great Plains 27 (Summer 1994): 5-8. This special issue contains article by Christopher Johnson, "Russian Loan Words in Ellis County Volga German Dialects," John McCabe-Juhnke, "Enacting Gemeinde in the Language and Style of Swiss Volhynian Mennonite Storytelling," William D. Keel, "From the Netherlands to Kansas: Mennonite Low German," and Gabriele Lunte," The German Bohemian Cultural and Linguistic Heritage of the Catholic Bucovinians in Ellis, Kansas."

Laing, Rev. Francis S. "German-Russian Settlements in Ellis County, Kansas." Kansas Historical Collections 11 (1909-10): 489-528. Focuses on Catholic element of this migration.

Morgenstern, William. "The Settlement of Bessarabia, Russia, By the Germans." Kansas Historical Collections 15 (1919-1922): 579-590. Early 19th century migration; many of these people and their descendants removed to Russell County in 1878.

Pantle, Alberta. "Settlement of the Krimmer Mennonite Brethren At Gnadenau, Marion County." Kansas Historical Quarterly 13 (February 1945): 259-285. German-Russian colony led by Jacob A. Wiebe to Kansas in summer 1874.

Petersen, Albert Jepmond, Jr. "German-Russian Catholic Colonization in Western Kansas: A Settlement Geography." Doc. diss., Louisiana State University, 1970.

__________. "The German-Russian Settlement Patterns in Ellis County, Kansas." Rocky Mountain Social Scientist 5 (April 1968): 52-62.

Pickle, Linda Schelbitzki. Contented among Strangers: Rural German-Speaking Women and Their Families in the Nineteenth-Century Midwest. Champaign: University of Illinois Press, 1996. The author includes in her study the states of Illinois, Iowa, Kansas, Missouri, and Nebraska.

__________. "Rural German-Speaking Women in Early Nebraska and Kansas: Ethnicity as a Factor in Frontier Adaptation." Great Plains Quarterly 9 (Fall 1989): 239-251.

Ruppenthal, Jacob C. "The German Element in Central Kansas." Kansas Historical Collections 13 (1913-14): 513-533.

Saul, Norman E. "The Migration of the Russian-Germans to Kansas." Kansas Historical Quarterly 40 (Spring 1974): 38-62.

__________. "Myth and History: Turkey Red Wheat and the `Kansas Miracle'." Heritage of the Great Plains 22 (Summer 1989): 1-13.

Schock, Adolph. In Quest of Free Land. San Jose, Calif.: San Jose State College, 1964. Coverage includes German-Russians, Mennonites, Catholics, and Lutherans in the old Northwest and on the Plains (Kansas, Nebraska, and the Dakotas) from 1700 to 1929.

Turk, Eleanor L. "The Germans of Atchison, 1854-1859: Development of an Ethnic Community." Kansas History 2 (Autumn 1979): 146-156.

__________. "The German Newspapers of Kansas." Kansas History 6 (Spring 1983): 46.

__________. "Getting Together: German American Social Organization On the Kansas Frontier." Kansas Quarterly 25 (no 2, 1994): 57-67. Examines ways in which churches and other organizations aided in the development of German language groups and the importance of these groups to Germans on the Kansas frontier.

__________. "Selling the Heartland: Agents, Agencies, Press and Policies Promoting German Emigration to Kansas in the Nineteenth Century." Kansas History 12 (Autumn 1989): 150-159.