American Geography: One Family's Journey

Thisonefamily'sjourneyacrossthe unsettledWest demonstrates howits understandings of family identity andselfhoodwere fostered. Beginning in the late 1880s,
each member's perspective of the past and the future
evolved as they moved from the Midwest to the
West and finally settled in various regions of the United States.Thischronicleoffamilymovementandcultural
assimilation contains anideologyof America that often
frames stories told about family and history.