What does it mean to be an American? Westward attempts an answer to that question by exploring the lives of common Americans from the founding of Jamestown to the Vanport, Oregon, flood of 1948.
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Based on the ancestry of the author\'s grandmother, Wilda Alverda Bowman Ballard, Westward follows one thread of the American tapestry back to the earliest English and German-speaking immigrants who braved the uncertain Atlantic Ocean in hopes of beginning new lives in North America.
What does it mean to be an American? Westward attempts an answer to that question by exploring the lives of common Americans from the founding of Jamestown to the Vanport, Oregon, flood of 1948