Gottfried Duden was 'dream spinner' for German immigrants :

Historians call Gottfried Duden the "dream spinner" who wrote persuasively in the 1820s about the attractiveness of Missouri for Germans. Duden's letters initiated the immigration of thousands of Germans to Missouri in subsequent decades.

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