Bound away : Virginia and the westward movement

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Bound away : Virginia and the westward movement

David Hackett Fischer and James C. Kelly

University Press of Virginia, 2000

  • : pbk

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"This book began as a catalog for an exhibition, at the Virginia Historical Society, to mark the centenary of Frederick Jackson Turner's thesis on 'the significance of the frontier in American history'"--Pref

Includes bibliographical references (p. 305-340) and index

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A study of the American westward movement. It demonstrates that the movement was a broad cultural process best understood not only through the writings of intellectual elites but also through the physical artefacts and folkways of ordinary people.

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