Making the heartland quilt : a geographical history of settlement and migration in early-nineteenth-century Illinois

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Making the heartland quilt : a geographical history of settlement and migration in early-nineteenth-century Illinois

Douglas K. Meyer

Southern Illinois University Press, c2000

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Includes bibliographical references (p. 303-321) and index

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This work reconstructs the settlement patterns of 33 immigrant groups in early-19th-century Illinois. It argues that mid-continental Illinois was a historical test-strip of the diverse diverse population origins that unfolded during the Great Migration.

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