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...Yankee Exodus, by Stewart H. Holbrook. How & why generations of 19th Century New Englanders took the trail West; an affectionate retracing by a Vermonter whose own family stayed home (TIME. June...
...Yankee Exodus, by Stewart H. Holbrook. How & why generations of 19th Century New Englanders took the trail West; an affectionate retracing by a Vermonter whose own family stayed home (TIME, June...
...poor-and the ads spread the word (truly) of rich soil and (falsely) of good roads and easy fortunes. After the Revolutionary War, thousands of Yankees poured into New York and Pennsylvania. In a few years, the trek to Ohio was on. Stay-at-home Yankees ridiculed the exodus; Ohio Indians tried using tomahawks to stop it. But the wagons rolled on, and mushrooming towns grew to look a lot like old New England towns, complete with village greens and gleaming white Congregational churches...
...negative way the emigrants influenced the New England they deserted, for by stripping their home states of cash and customers they left a lot of the stay-at-homes out of work. The New England spinster, not always old and homely, was also a product of the exodus of Yankee men. The thought of all those girls back East going to waste drove western bachelors wild, made them plead for someone "to bring a few spareribs to [the western] market." Finally a personable young bachelor named Asa S. Mercer, first president of the brand-new University of Washington at Seattle...
...Yankee Exodus has some arid stretches, notably the endless lists of early settlers' names that appear in every chapter. But dozens of such rousingly written real life tales as the saga of Seattle's Mercer Girls will be bounty enough for readers who follow the Yankee trails all the way West...