Writing the Amish: The Worlds of John A. Hostetler Christian like the Cheyenne people as

like the Cheyenne people as a whole

Research provides detail for six successive generations of the Oberholtzer family in Lancaster County

and literary approaches to understand these diaries and their significant role in telling the historical narrative of the Mennonites and of wartime in America

documents emigrants

quilts and needlecrafts

Writing the Amish: The Worlds of John A. Hostetler Christian like the Cheyenne people as"Writing the Amish" both recounts and assesses Hostetler's Amish related work. The first half of the book consists of four reflective essays by Donald Kraybill, Simon Bronner, David Weaver Zercher, and Hostetler himself in which Hostetler is the primary subject. The second half reprints in chronological order fourteen key writings by Hostetler with commentaries and annotations by Weaver Zercher. Paperback. Penn State University Press, 2005. 351 pages.