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Settlement in Kansas’’ (Master's thesis, University of Minnesota, 1954), pp. 22-25. 9. J. J. Hildebrandt, Chronologische Zeittafel (Winnipeg: J. J. Hildebrandt, 1945), p. 234. 10. George Leibbrandt, “The Emigration of the German Mennonites from Russia to the United States and Canada in 1873-1880,"" MOR, VI (October, 1932), pp. 209- 210; Cornelius Jansen, ed., Saommulung von Notizen ber Amerika (Danzig: Paul Thieme, 1872); for a biography of Jansen and his role in migration see G. E. Reimer and G. R. Gaeddert, Extled by the Czar. 11. Peter Jansen, Memoirs of Peter Jansen, the Record of a Busy Life: An Auto- biography (Beatrice, Nebraska: privately published, 1921), pp. 29-30. See also the fine work Exiled by the Czar. 12. Peter Wiens, ‘Letter from Russia,” Herald of Truth, XI (June, 1874), p. 105. 13. Leibbrandt, “The Emigration of the German Mennonites,” MQR, VI, p. 224; John D. Unruh, Jr., “Mennonites to Nebraska, 1873-1878" (Master's thesis, University of Kansas, 1959), pp. 33-56. 14. See Cornelius Krahn, ed., From the Steppes to the Pratries (Newton, Kansas: Mennonite Publication Office, 1949). 15. See Ernst Correll, ed., ““The Congressional Debates on the Mennonite Immigra- tion from Russia, 1873-1874,"" MQR, XX, No. 2 (July, 1946), pp. 48-60. 16. M. A. Carleton, ‘Hard Wheats Winning Their Way,” in bulletin of United States Department of Agriculture, 1914. Notes 201 17. Ibid. A fuller account of the history of hard winter wheat is included in United States Department of Agriculture Bulletin No. 1074 (Washington: G.P.O., 1922) and Classification of American Wheat Varieties (Washington: G.P.O., 1922). See also an in- teresting discussion about Mennonites in William B. Bracke, Wheat Country (New York: Sloan and Pierce, 1950), pp. 85-98. 18. W. L. Morton, Manitoba: A History (Toronto: University of Toronto, 1957), pp. 160-161; Leibbrandt, “The Emigration of the German Mennonites,” MQR, VII, pp. 7-11; Gertrude S. Young, “A Record Concerning Mennonite Immigration, 1873,” American Historical Review, XX1X, No. 3 (April, 1924), pp. 518-522; Cornelius Jansen, “The Mennonites,” Mt. Pleasant, Iowa, Free Press (January 13, 1876); C. B. Schmidt, “Reminiscences of Kansas Immigration Work,’ The Mennonite, XXXVI (September 28, 1911), pp. 2, 4, 9; Christian Krehbiel, “An Earnest Call: Immediate Help Needed,” Herald of Truth, XI (February, 1874), p. 21. 19. Krahn, “Russia,” ME, IV, 381-393. A more extensive treatment of this alternative service and the Russian laws governing it will be given in a later chapter. 20. C. B. Schmidt, “Reminiscences of Kansas Immigration Work,’ p. 2. 21. Ibid., XXXI (October 5, 1911), p. 2. 22. C. H. Smith, The Story of the Mennonites, pp. 455-456; Cornelius Jansen, “The Mennonites’ ; Krahn, “ Russian Nationalism and the Mennonites,’ MQR, XXII, No. 4 (December 9, 1948), p. 4; P. M. Friesen, Die Alt-Evangelische Mennonitische Briiderschaft in Russland. Chapte