To Reap a Bountiful Harvest: Czech Immigration beyond the Mississippi, 1850-1900 FROM THE PUBLISHER
The definitive work on the causes of the rural migration of the Czech people to the US in the 19th century, where they settled and why, and what their lives were like.
FROM THE CRITICS
Library Journal
The first Czechs who came to 19th-century America often settled in such cities as Cleveland, St. Louis, and Chicago, but the author, a Czech historian and immigrant, has little to say about these urban Czech Americans. She concentrates on Czech Americans who came in the decades after the Civil War to become farmers. Perhaps the strongest and most original part of this brief work stems from research the author did in primary and secondary materials in the areas of outmigration in Bohemia and Moravia. This study began as a dissertation but in its present form seems aimed at general readers interested in their Czech heritage. There are good maps and a complete scholarly apparatus. Recommended for academic libraries with a strong interest in immigration history and to public libraries serving areas where Czechs have settled.-- Robert W. Frizzell, Hendrix Coll. Lib., Conway, Ark.
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