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Bold, flamboyant, extravagant, devious, visionary, Agoston Haraszthy (1812-1869) is one of the most fascinatingand elusivefigures in the history of American agriculture. Apart from his pioneer efforts to establish a world-class wine industry in California, he holds other important distinctions: he was the first Hungarian to permanently settle in the United States, author of only the second Hungarian-language book about the United States, founder of one of the earliest towns in Wisconsin, and owner and operator of the first steamboat to engage in regularly scheduled traffic on the upper Mississippi River.Lured by the discovery of gold to cross the plains to California in 1849, Haraszthy became the first sheriff of San Diego, a member of the California legislature, and the first assayer of the United States Mint in San Francisco. Long fascinated with the possibility of growing fine European grapes in America, he moved in 1856 to northern Californias Sonoma Valley, where he built the first stone wineries in California, introduced more than 300 varieties of European grapes, and planted (or helped his neighbors plant) more than a thousand acres of choice wine vineyards. He made a well-publicized wine tour of Europe in 1862, wrote the first notable book on California wine growing, and built his Sonoma estate into what was widely advertised as the largest vineyard in the world.In this book, the first full-length biography of one of nineteenth-century Americas most interesting and influential immigrants, the author examines Haraszthys amazing life, dispels many of the myths that have gathered around him, and makes a careful assessment of his contributions to American immigration and agricultural history.

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title:Strong Wine : The Life and Legend of Agoston Haraszthy
author:McGinty, Brian.
publisher:Stanford University Press
isbn10 | asin:0804731462
print isbn13:9780804731461
ebook isbn13:9780585047386
language:English
subjectHaraszthy, Agoston,--1812-1869, Vintners--California--Biography, Viticulturists--California--Biography.
publication date:1998
lcc:TP547.H37M33 1998eb
ddc:641.2/2/092
subject:Haraszthy, Agoston,--1812-1869, Vintners--California--Biography, Viticulturists--California--Biography.
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Strong Wine
The Life and Legend of Agoston Haraszthy
Brian McGinty
STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
STANFORD, CALIFORNIA
Stanford University Press
Stanford, California
1998 by the Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University
Printed in the United States of America
Quotation from Vintage: The Story of Wine by Hugh Johnson (Simon & Schuster, 1989, first published by Mitchell Beazley, UK) by permission of Mitchell Beazley
Frontispiece: Portrait of Agoston Haraszthy by William Shew, San Francisco. Frank H. Bartholomew Foundation.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
McGinty, Brian.
Strong wine: the life and legend of Agoston
Haraszthy / Brian McGinty.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 0-8047-3145-4 (cl.)
ISBN 0-8047-3146-2 (pbk.)
1. Haraszthy, Agoston, 1812-1869. 2. Vintners
CaliforniaBiography. 3. Viticulturists
CaliforniaBiography. I. Title.
TP547.H37M33 1998
641.2'2'092dc21
[B]Picture 3Picture 4Picture 5Picture 697-48454
Picture 7 This book is printed on acid-free paper.
Original printing 1998
Last figure below indicates year of this printing:
06 05 04 03 02 01 00 99 98
"No novelist could have invented Haraszthy. There is a surprise around every corner of his lifeand how many lives have had so many corners?"
Picture 8
Hugh Johnson, Vintage: The Story of Wine
Acknowledgments
This book would not be complete without an expression of thanks to the many people who helped in its preparation. In Budapest, Dr. Tams Magyarics, chairman of the Department of American Studies at Etvs Lornd University, deserves special gratitude for translating Hungarian texts for my use, for sharing his insights into Hungarian and Hungarian-American history, and for carefully reading the finished manuscript. Dr. Tibor Frank, director of the School of English and American Studies, Etvs Lornd University, was kind enough to read the manuscript and offer suggestions for corrections and additions. Mr. and Mrs. Gyula Lelbach welcomed me into their Budapest home and shared with me a part of their very considerable knowledge of noble life in Bcs County during the nineteenth century. Melinda Kovcs was a great help in locating documents in the National Archives and the National Szchnyi Library and in translating Hungarian texts. The staffs of both the Archives and the Szchnyi Library were helpful and, in spite of what at times seemed a formidable language barrier, courteous and friendly.
My research in Serbia was facilitated by Mrs. Voyka Askovic* and Mr. Negovan Lauev, both of Novi Sad. In Slovakia, Mrs. Kamila Chud of Bytca* conducted research on my behalf, while Msgr. Emilin Foltn, pastor of St. Mary's Church in Hearne, Texas, acted as a bridge in the correspondence I carried on with Mrs. Chud after my return to the United States, translating my letters and hers.
Those who offered me help and assistance in the United States
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are so numerous that I scarcely know where to begin in expressing my appreciation. The late Theodore Schoenman of Santa Barbara made the unpublished English translation of Haraszthy's Utazs jszakamerikban (Travels in North America) that he completed with his wife, Helen Benedek Schoenman, available for my use. Zoltn Sztray of San Bernardino offered encouragement for my project and shared some of the information he acquired during the research for his own study of Haraszthy's life, published in Hungarian in 1986. Eva T. Liptak of the Family History Library of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints in Salt Lake City was a good friend in plumbing the resources of that great genealogical repository, while Dr. George Barany of the University of Denver read the Hungarian portions of my manuscript and offered corrections and suggestions for improvement. Pamela Herr, former managing editor of American West magazine and author of Jessie Benton Frmont: A Biography, read the entire manuscript, offering many good suggestions. Dr. Kevin Starr, State Librarian of California and author of the "Americans and the California Dream" series, read the book and enthusiastically recommended it to Stanford University Press.
Others who offered generous help include Brother Steve Herro, O. Praem., and Abbott Benjamin Mackin, O. Praem., of St. Norbert Abbey, De Pere, Wisconsin; Eileen Adank, secretary of St. Aloysius Church in Sauk City, and Father William Rock, pastor of St. Norbert Church in nearby Roxbury; Paul Meyer of Sauk City and Robert Wollersheim of Prairie du Sac; and William F. Heintz of Sonoma and Charles L. Sullivan of Los Gatos, California, both dedicated wine historians. Although Mr. Sullivan and I have reached different conclusions regarding important aspects of Haraszthy's life and career, I salute him as an important scholar in the field and thank him for his generosity in sharing information and insights.
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