ABOUT THIS BOOK

As Brian C. Wilson describes them in this highly readable and entertaining book, Yankees—defined by their shared culture and sense of identity—had a number of distinctive traits and sought to impose their ideas across the state of Michigan.
After the ethnic label of "Yankee" fell out of use, the offspring of Yankees appropriated the term "Midwesterner." So fused did the identities of Yankee and Midwesterner become that understanding the larger story of America's Midwestern regional identity begins with the Yankees in Michigan.

AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY

Brian C. Wilson is Chair and professor of Comparative Religion at Western Michigan University. He is the author of Christianity.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Contents
Introduction	000
Yankees in New England and Beyond	000
Yankees Come to Michigan	000
Yankees on the Michigan Frontier	000
The Flowering of Yankee Michigan	000
The Industrialization of Yankee Michigan	000
The Decline of Yankee Michigan	000
Sidebars
John Ball, Yankee Speculator	000
Yankees in French Detroit, from Walter March, Shoepac Recollections, 1856	000
The Pilgrim Oak of Michigan, from William Nowlin, The Bark Covered House, 1876	000
Excerpts from ?Over the Hill to the Poor-House,? in Will Carleton, Farm Ballads, 1873	000
The Congregationalist Revolt in Michigan	000
?Little Yankees? versus the Railroads	000
Appendices
Appendix 1. Three Favorite Yankee Recipes	000
Appendix 2. Museums, Libraries, and Archives	000
Notes	000
For Further Reference	000
Index	000

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