@article{2021,
       author = "",
       title =  {{Elwin E. Damkohler’s Account of the Koreshan Unity}},
       howpublished = "\url{https://ir.hamilton.edu/do/60ccf768-ef4e-41ec-88fd-f15157bebad9}",
       publisher = {Richard W. Couper Press and Hamilton College Library Special Collections},
       journal = {American Communal Societies Quarterly},
       year = 2021,
       month = apr,
       volumen = {15},
       number = {2},
       pages = {130--136},
}

Date

April 2021

Available After

2024-04-01

Description

Lyn Millner’s excellent history of the Koreshan Unity, The Allure of Immortality: An American Cult, a Florida Swamp, and a Renegade Prophet, made use of many heretofore inaccessible primary sources about the Koreshans. One of these was Elwin E. Damkohler’s scarce pamphlet Estero, Fla., 1882: Memoirs of the First Settler (Fort Myers Beach, Florida: Island Press, 1967). As Millner recounts, Elwin and his father Gustave were convinced by Teed and the Koreshans to legally sign the title to their lands over to the community. This reprint is Elwin’s bitter memories of the Koreshans, excerpted here from his extremely rare pamphlet.

Type of Work

• Article

Source Title

American Communal Societies Quarterly

ISSN

1939-473X

Volume

15

Issue

2

First Page

130

Last Page

136

Publisher

Richard W. Couper Press

Hamilton College Library Special Collections

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