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Book Review

Canada and the United States

David Hackett Fischer and James C. Kelly. Bound Away: Virginia and the Westward Movement. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia. 2000. Pp. xvi, 366. Cloth $65.00, paper $19.50.

This book by David Hackett Fischer and James C. Kelly is provocative but disappointing in its execution. It explores the huge role that Virginia played in United States frontier history. The authors examine the Old Dominion as a frontier for expansion by Britain's "Northern Borderers," then the movement of Virginians to new frontiers in the colony's interior, and, finally, the influence of Virginia as a feeder of population to frontiers in different parts of the United States. 1

Fischer and Kelly provide much interesting discussion of how Virginia repeatedly lost its population to greener pastures. They trace migration routes (in wave after wave) to places like Tennessee, Kentucky, Texas, and Missouri. Through statistical analysis, they argue that Virginia played a larger role in shaping the American frontier than New England (or indeed, any other eastern area), although the extent of that influence varied from place to place. . . .

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