{"title":"Local Migration Systems in Nineteenth-Century Iowa","authors":"M. Conzen","doi":"10.2307/213557","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"M, /IGRATION is enshrined in American historiography as the \"westward movement.\" As such it has provided the framework for a stirring interpretation of cultural change in North America.2 However, the tidal wave implicit in the Iowa booster's declaration is patently misleading. Many people became disillusioned by frontier life or by personal failure in the West and moved back East. A multitude of crosscurrents sifted","PeriodicalId":265400,"journal":{"name":"Social Structure and Social Mobility","volume":"8 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"1974-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"1","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Social Structure and Social Mobility","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.2307/213557","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
M, /IGRATION is enshrined in American historiography as the "westward movement." As such it has provided the framework for a stirring interpretation of cultural change in North America.2 However, the tidal wave implicit in the Iowa booster's declaration is patently misleading. Many people became disillusioned by frontier life or by personal failure in the West and moved back East. A multitude of crosscurrents sifted