Journey to New Switzerland :
travel account of the Koepfli and Suppiger Family to St. Louis on the Mississippi and the founding of New Switzerland in the State of Illinois /
by Joseph Suppiger, Salomon Koepfli, and Kaspar Koepfli ; translated by Raymond J. Spahn ; with excerpts from Jennie Latzer Kaeser's translation of Salomon Koepfli's Die Geschichte der Ansiedlung von Highland (The story of the settling of Highland) ; edited by John C. Abbott ; foreword by Joseph Blake Koepfli.

Description

Main Author

Suppiger, Joseph, 1804-1861.

Related Names

Köpfli, Salomon
Abbott, John C. (John Cushman), 1921-2005
Köpfli, Kaspar.
Köpfli, Salomon.

Language(s)

English ; German

Published

Carbondale, Ill. : Southern Illinois University Press, c1987.

Subjects

Suppiger, Joseph, > Suppiger, Joseph, / 1804-1861 > Suppiger, Joseph, / 1804-1861 / Diaries.
Koepfli family.
Suppiger family.
Swiss Americans > Swiss Americans / Illinois > Swiss Americans / Illinois / Biography.
Swiss Americans > Swiss Americans / Illinois > Swiss Americans / Illinois / History > Swiss Americans / Illinois / History / 19th century.
United States > United States / Description and travel.
Mississippi River Valley > Mississippi River Valley / Description and travel.
Illinois > Illinois / Description and travel.

Note

Includes index.
Translation of: Reisebericht der Familie Köpfli & Suppiger nach St. Louis am Mississippi und Gründung von New-Switzerland im Staate Illinois.

Physical Description

xxxiv, 236 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

ISBN

0809313138 :

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