New World View: Letters from a German Immigrant Family in Texas, 1854 1885 is a bilingual and annotated edition of a collection of letters written by a 19th century German immigrant family in Texas. Christian Friedrich Bergmann and his family belonged to the large wave of German immigrants that came to Texas in the 1850s. Born in April of 1817 in Ebersbach, a small village then located in the Kingdom of Saxony, Bergmann together with his wife Johanna Christiane Luise Bergmann and his three sons, Friedrich, Karl, and Christoph embarked on an overseas journey to America in August of...