Mennonite

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.

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."

McQuillan, David Aiden. Prevailing Over Time: Ethnic Adjustment on the Kansas Prairies, 1875-1925. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1990. A study of Swedish, Mennonite, and French-Canadian settlers.

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.

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.


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