Wild Yankees the struggle for independence along Pennsylvania's revolutionary frontier / Paul B. Moyer.
Material type: TextPublication details: Ithaca : Cornell University Press, (c)2007.Description: 1 online resource (xvi, 216 pages) : maps, portraitsContent type:- text
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- F157 .W553 2007
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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.
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