The complete family history, never before published, of pioneers of the Pfeiffer and Zwicky families in the isolated mountain canton of Glarus in Switzerland, who came in the mid-1800s to Wisconsin, where there are no mountains at all. Their genealogy is detailed and documented back for more than a thousand years from actual records and manuscripts in Europe, also court records, cemeteries, and family letters newly discovered and included in full with English translation. Earliest ancestors discussed include nobility and royalty of France, England, and Germany, including Charlemagne and Alfred the Great. Completely annotated, every-name index.

Hardcover: 1,431 pages

Year: 2002