Wild Yankees the struggle for independence along Pennsylvania's revolutionary frontier /
Moyer, Paul Benjamin, 1970-
Wild Yankees the struggle for independence along Pennsylvania's revolutionary frontier / Paul B. Moyer. - Ithaca : Cornell University Press, (c)2007. - 1 online resource (xvi, 216 pages) : maps, portraits.
Originally presented as the author's thesis (Ph. D.)--College of William and Mary, 1999.
Includes bibliographies 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.
9780801461729
Frontier and pioneer life--Pennsylvania--Wyoming Valley.
Indians of North America--History.--Pennsylvania--Wyoming Valley
Electronic Books.
F157 / .W553 2007
Wild Yankees the struggle for independence along Pennsylvania's revolutionary frontier / Paul B. Moyer. - Ithaca : Cornell University Press, (c)2007. - 1 online resource (xvi, 216 pages) : maps, portraits.
Originally presented as the author's thesis (Ph. D.)--College of William and Mary, 1999.
Includes bibliographies 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.
9780801461729
Frontier and pioneer life--Pennsylvania--Wyoming Valley.
Indians of North America--History.--Pennsylvania--Wyoming Valley
Electronic Books.
F157 / .W553 2007