The Last of the Blacksmiths
- Authors
- Claire Gebben
- Publisher
- Coffeetown Press
- Tags
- cleveland , immigrant , germany , ohio , emmigrant
- Date
- 2014-01-17
- Size
- 0.74 MB
- Lang
- en
In the early 19th century, a farmer's son in the Bavarian Rhineland travels to Cleveland to apprentice to a blacksmith. Michael Harm struggles through his indenture with a cruel master to receive his freedom dues just as civil war threatens the country he now calls home. However, it is Cleveland's post-war Gilded Age that presents the greatest challenge to Michael's artisan way of life.