The Promise in the Morning Sky: An Immigrant's Story

The Promise in the Morning Sky is a classic tale of a grandfather telling his grandson the story of a German immigrant (my great-great-grandfather, Christopher Bogner) and the man's life and times in America during the Nineteenth Century. The story includes his early days in Bavaria, the journey to Liverpool, the forty-six-day crossing of the Atlantic Ocean, and his struggles to set up a new life in the New World. As a story-teller, I found it challenging to write a tale about a little-know...