The Ticket

by Schutte, Karen

• ISBN13: 9781936183739
• ISBN10: 1936183730
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2010-09-15
• Publisher: Itasca Books

Summary

When Karl Kessel, a turn-of-the century German emigrant, receives an unexpected gift-another man's ticket to travel to America-he leaves behind his young wife and two small sons. Karl boards the KronPrinz Wilhelm, sailing for a country he knows nothing about - except that it promises the opportunity he covets. Arriving in America, Karl becomes obsessed with becoming the owner of a farm-to be his own man.

Table of Contents

Preface
Decisions, 1906	p. 1
Katja and Karl, 1897	p. 19
Crossing the Atlantic, 1906	p. 47
Ellis Island, 1906	p. 58
Cleveland	p. 73
West to Wyoming	p. 85
Carving a New Life	p. 97
The Winter Alone	p. 120
Sending for Katja, 1907	p. 132
Beginnings, 1907	p. 143
Building a Life in America, 1911	p. 160
The Middle Years, 1915-18	p. 177
Making Their Way, 1919-28	p. 195
The Great Depression, 1929	p. 220
A Time of War, A Time of Peace	p. 243
Freedom's Debt	p. 266
When Love Dies	p. 287
In the End	p. 307
Acknowledgements
Endnotes
About the Author
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