Making the heartland quilt
Subtitle: a geographical history of settlement and migration in early-nineteenth-century Illinois
By: Douglas K. Meyer.
Publisher: Southern Illinois University Press
Published: 2000
Place of publication: Carbondale
Language: eng
Number of pages: 332
Subjects: Land settlement patterns -- Illinois -- History -- 19th century.; Human geography -- Illinois.; Migration, Internal -- Illinois -- History -- 19th century.; Illinois -- Geography.; Illinois -- History -- 1778-1865.
Description: "In Making the Heartland Quilt: A Geographical History of Settlement and Migration in Early-Nineteenth-Century Illinois, Douglas K. Meyer reconstructs the settlement patterns of thirty-three immigrant groups and confirms the emergence of discrete culture regions and regional way stations.".

"Meyer argues that midcontinental Illinois symbolizes a historic test-strip of the diverse population origins that unfolded during the Great Migration. He demonstrates that Upland Southerners, New Englanders, Midlanders-Midwesterners, and foreigners formed culturally mixed regional way stations that interconnected in expanding continental urban-transport systems and culture regions.".

"Basing his research on the 1850 United States manuscript schedules, Meyer dissects the geographical configurations of twenty-three native and ten foreign-born adult male immigrant groups who peopled Illinois."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 303-321)  and index.