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Comanches and Germans on the Frontier: The Ethnology of Heinrich Berghaus
October 20, 2018 @ 10:30 am - 12:00 pm EDT
Sponsored by: Patrick Heath Public Library
A long lost study, at least to North American scholars, the notes and observations from German Geographer Heinrich Berghaus offered previously unknown insight into the interactions of German Settlers and Native Americans in the mid 1850s in Texas. Join UTSA Professor Daniel Gelo and retired UTSA German Professor Chris Wickham as they discuss the findings, the wild Texas frontier and the common languages shared by those who sought to tame it.
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