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Susan Gray explores community formation among New England migrants to the Upper Midwest in the generation before the Civil War. Focusing on Kalamazoo County in southwestern Michigan, she examines how 'Yankees' moving west reconstructed familiar communal institutions on the frontier while confronting forces of profound socioeconomic change, particularly the rise of the market economy and the commercialization of agriculture. Gray argues that Ya...

Demonstrates how employing place as an analytical tool transforms Western women's history. Offering histories of Wests ranging from the nineteenth century to the near present, this synthesis of feminist history and geography has the potential to revitalize the field of Western women's history.