The whiskey merchant's diary : an urban life in the emerging Midwest
"Joseph J. Mersman was a German American immigrant who aspired -- successfully -- to become a self-made man. In 1847, at the age of twenty-three, Mersman began recording his activities in a bound volume, small enough to fit into his coat pocket. His diary, filled with work and play, eating and drinking, flirting and dancing, provides a unique picture of everyday life, first in Cincinnati and then in St. Louis, the new urban centers of the emerging Midwest
Print Book, English, ©2007
Ohio University Press, Athens, ©2007