Immigrant in Peril is the story of Carl Tangeman's perilous journey from northern Europe in 1847 across the pre-civil war American frontier to search for his brothers in New York. Faced with starvation and revolutionary upheaval, Carl was pushed from his home in Sulingen, Hannover, Prussia bound for New York in 1847. He immigrated on a wave of 1.7 million people who came from Europe to America in the 1840's seeking a better life.