The Galveston Dispatches: A Swiss Missionary's Account of Nineteenth-Century Texas -- Clay Rogers, Paperback Ethnic Issues *THE STARS ARE FADING

*THE STARS ARE FADING

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The Galveston Dispatches: A Swiss Missionary's Account of Nineteenth-Century Texas -- Clay Rogers, Paperback Ethnic Issues *THE STARS ARE FADINGPersonal stories of life in Galveston in the mid nineteenth century. In 1855, Friedrich Gloor was just nineteen when he was sent from Basel, Switzerland, halfway around the world to teach at the First German Lutheran Church school in Galveston, Texas. He spent the next eleven years writing letters to his family about a place that was very different from his Swiss home. The climate was harsh, with stifling heat and bitter cold, droughts and floods. He