An American Geography: One Family's Journey

This one family's journey across the unsettled West demonstrates how its understandings of family identity and selfhood were 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. This chronicle of family movement and cultural assimilation contains an ideology of America that often frames stories told about family and history.