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Matej's Journey to America is a creative-nonfiction chronicle exploring the forces that drove our immigrant ancestors to new lands. After Adam and Eve's eviction.
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AmazonGlobal Ship Orders Internationally. Meanwhile, Spain, England and France were colonizing and competing for control in the New World that was becoming home to an increasing number of European emigrants looking for a better life. The American Colonies fought for independence and then began to absorb all lands from the Atlantic to the Pacific.


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Thomas Jefferson purchased the immense Louisiana Territory from Napoleon in , after which mountain men opened the West to homesteaders, miners and ranchers. My great-great-grandfather Matej was born as the Rocky Mountain fur trade boomed in , and grew up on a acre farm in Moravia where the Chmelkas had been serfs since Charlemagne was crowned the first Holy Roman Emperor a millennium earlier.

Matej became a Dragoon in the Austrian Imperial Army and helped put down a revolution in Prague in the year gold was discovered in California but war spread and life worsened for European peasants. Gold, homesteads and wild Texas longhorns free for the taking lured thousands of oppressed Europeans to America on steamships and railroads now making long-distance travel feasible.

After Prussia defeated the Austrian Empire including Bohemia and Moravia and then France, Matej's family escaped its misery and immigrated to Nebraska in They found a difficult life with grasshoppers, drought, hail and fires destroying crops. New technologies in farm equipment, transportation and communications made America the envy of the world in when Matej died and was buried near the prairie church he helped build.

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Matej's Journey to America honors him and his fellow immigrants ordinary men and women generally lost in history for the legacies and opportunities they gave us in our great land of freedom. Don Chmelka was born on January 22, in a Nebraska farmhouse four miles from where his great-great-grandfather Matej homesteaded after emigrating from Moravia. Don grew up on this primitive farm with western mustangs providing the horsepower, and without the luxury of electricity, telephone or indoor plumbing. His education began in a one-room country school, leading to a Bachelor of Science in mechanical engineering from the University of Nebraska and later an MBA from Pepperdine University.

Don's professional career began as a Reliability Engineer in the automotive industry and then with Martin Marietta on America's first anti-ballistic missile.