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IL: LG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 1
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In the 1860s, Robert and Margarete Peters travel by carriage, ship, riverboat, train, and covered wagon from their small village in Germany to Omaha, Nebraska, where they establish a farm and work hard to succeed. Almost 150 years later, Olivia Peters wants to learn about her ancestors. She and her family still live on the farm that Robert and Margarete created all those years ago, and they want to travel to Germany to find the house their relatives...
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Story of the Peter(s) family. First paragraph states taht "The following is a portion of a presentation given before the FORE TRAVEL MOTORCADE by Dr. Elmer E. Peters on May 21, 1993 and was meant to aquaint these visitors with the community. It is included here in the hope that the reader will better understand the milieu in which PETER(s) families took root, grew, and spread."
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Forward of this book explains that "This is an account of that first generation of Americans, born of middle European parents, and the results of their quest for information and knowledge of the old world cultures that molded and forever influenced their parents and themselfes."
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