A number of these German immigrants migrated to North Dakota.
Amazing, Russia is trying ot build it’s country and we are trying to destroy ours.
They also migrated in large numbers to Western Kansas.
I was once at our gun club, shooting a gorgeous old Argentine Mauser. It was made in 1909 by DWM in Berlin and the workmanship was off the charts.
Anyway there were a couple of other shooters at the range and they came over and we talked for a while. I showed them the old Mauser and they laughed and began talking in German clearly impressed with it.
These people had been in America since around the 1890s and they still could speak German.
Being a descendent of those myself, but ones immigrating to South Dakota, my great grandmother once recalled to me how soldiers came to concript the men for some war, when they had supposedly been guaranteed exemption from such service. Those refusing were lined up in a ditch and shot. I wouldn’t put too much faith in Russian agreements, knowing their history.
From: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lincoln,_Nebraska
” North Bottoms: Directly north of UNL’s downtown campus, the North Bottoms is an area in the floodplain of Salt Creek that holds many smaller houses now rented by a large number of UNL students. Its proximity to Memorial stadium combined with a high student population makes it one of the main tailgating headquarters during NE college football home games. It was originally the northern part of the “German” or “Russian” bottoms settled by Volga-German refugees from Russia.”
Many Russian Germans that came without money to buy farm land settled here.