Wild Yankees: the struggle for independence along Pennsylvania's revolutionary frontier
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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Moyer, Paul Benjamin 1970- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Ithaca Cornell University Press 2007
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Online Access:FAW01
FAW02
Item Description:Includes bibliographical references (pages 201-209) and index
Introduction : a farmer's revolution -- "Among quarrelsome Yankees, insidious Indians, and lonely wilds" : natives, colonists, and the Wyoming controversy -- "A great many wrangling disputes" : authority, allegiance, property, and the frontier war for independence -- "A dangerous combination of villains" : the social context of agrarian resistance -- "All the difficulties of forming a new settlement" : frontier migration, land speculation, and settler insurgency -- "A perfect union with the people" : cultures of resistance along the revolutionary frontier -- "Poor and ignorant but industrious settlers" : frontier development and the path to accommodation -- "Artful deceivers" : Yankee notables and the resolution of the Wyoming controversy -- Epilogue : closing the revolutionary frontier
Physical Description:xvi, 216 pages
ISBN:9780801461729
0801461723
9780801444944
0801444942

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