Bound away : Virginia and the westward movement / David Hackett Fischer and James C. Kelly

Author:: Fischer, David Hackett, 1935-
Published:: Charlottesville : University Press of Virginia, 2000.
Physical Description:: xvi, 366 pages : illustrations, maps, portraits ; 25 cm
Additional Creators:: Kelly, James C., 1949- and Virginia Historical Society

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Subject(s):

Migration, Internal—Virginia—History
Migration, Internal—United States—History
Frontier thesis
Frontier and pioneer life—Virginia
Frontier and pioneer life—United States
Virginia—History—Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775
Virginia—History—1775-1865
Virginia—Population—History
United States—Territorial expansion—History

ISBN:

0813917735 (cloth : alk. paper)
0813917743 (pbk. : alk. paper)

Note:

"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.

Bibliography Note:

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

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