Additional references:

David Lowenthal and Martyn J. Bowden, eds., Geographies of the Mind: Essays in Historical Geography in Honor of John Kirtland Wright. NY: Oxford U. Press, 1976)

Tuan, Yi-Fu, _Landscapes of Fear_ (NY: Pantheon, 1979).

Peter Jackson, _Maps of Meaning: An Introduction to Cultural Geography_ (London: Unwin Hyman, 1989).
posted by Lloyd at 10:00 AM

From Lucy Jayne, Botscharow-Kamau, Neighbors: Harmony and Conflict on the Indiana Frontier, Journal of the Early Republic © 1991 Society for Historians of the Early American Republic. (p. 521)

Describes family unit migration, and notes "As elsewhere on the frontier once migrants were settled, Posey County kin ties were broadened through intermarriage with unrelated neighbors, thereby creating neighborhoods in which residents could say with perfect accuracy, "We're all kin."

(Cites F. Carlene Bryant, _We're All Kin: A Cultural Study of a Mountain Neighborhood._)
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There is an e-book of A Very Social Time
Crafting Community in Antebellum New England
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