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Historical person
1812–1877
Wilhelm Keil was the German-American religious leader who founded the Bethel community in Missouri and the Aurora Colony in Oregon.
This person is linked because Jane Kirkpatrick portrays the historical figure under their own identity. Dialogue, private motives and undocumented incidents are imaginative reconstruction and should not be read as a complete biography.
Series
The Change and Cherish trilogy reconstructs the life of Emma Wagner Giesy, a German-American woman whose outspoken independence repeatedly collides with Wilhelm Keil’s communal authority. The story moves from Bethel, Missouri, to Willapa Bay and the Aurora Colony as Emma and her family seek both material security and…
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