The Quarterly of the Texas State Historical Association, Volume 3, July 1899 - April, 1900 Page: 34
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Texas Historical Association Quarterly.
services would be in demand. He glowingly described Texas as a
land of milk and honey, of perennial flowers, of crystal streams
rich and fruitful beyond measure, where roamed myriads of deer
and buffalo, while the primeval forests abounded in wild fowl of
every kind. And what he said was true. It is a glorious land; and
I am glad that I came here.
It was in this way that Gustave Schleicher, a graduate of the
University of Giessen and already an engineer on the Meinecker
Road, and Wundt, a student of law, were won for the enterprise.
A communistic society was organized of which friendship, freedom,
and equality were the watchwords. It had no regular scheme of
government, so far as I know. In fact, being communistic, the as-
sociation would not brook the tyranny of a ruler. But the guiding
spirits were by common consent Messrs. Wagner, Herff, Schleicher,
and Schenk. Being the youngest of the whole company-I was
thirteen-1 was, of course, rarely consulted. The general director
of the industrial school had purchased my freedom from my father
with the understanding that I should botanize in Texas. I was
well satisfied at first; and Herff and Schleicher treated me like a
son,
In Feb., 1847, we left for Hamburg and remained there for
several weeks until our ship had discharged her cargo. In April
we sailed. Our party consisted of about forty men of whom I re-
member the following:
Dr. Herff ................... ............................physician.
Dr. Schulz..............................................
Schleicher ...............................................engineer.
Lerch ..................................................architect.
Zoellner ................................................
Friedrich ....................................................lawyer.
Wundt . ...........................................
Fuchs.. ..........................................
Schleunig.. ........................................ ..
Amelung ...................................................
Hesse ......................................................
Wagner . . ......... ........................................
Herrman ............. ..............................forester.
Schenck . . ........................................ ..
Kuegler. ..................................................
Vogt ................. ................................... ..
Louis .. .................................................... ..
Strauss .. .............................................. mechanic.
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