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"This book is a study of the values and aspirations of the earliest agrarian settlers in the Far West and how they changed in the frontier setting. It compares rural people who settled in the Willamette Valley in the 1840s, the Utah Valley in the 1850s, and the Boise Valley in the 1860s."--BOOK JACKET. "The author explores the reasons for Americans' move away from a culture centering on family and kin and from attitudes that valued and protected the land, not for its commercial worth but as the base of support for future generations. The root of our present tendency to pursue individual…
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2 editions- Paperback · English · 1997Cambridge University Press · 329 pages · 9780521585750
- Other · English · 1994Cambridge University Press · 313 pages · 9780521434997
Farm lifeFrontier and pioneer lifeHistoryFrontier and pioneer life, west (u.s.)Farm life, united statesWillamette river valleyIdaho, historyUtah, history