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Wild Yankees

by Moyer, Paul Benjamin,
Additional authors: ebrary, Inc.
Published by : Cornell University Press, (Ithaca :) Physical details: xvi, 216 p. : maps, ports.
Subject(s): Susquehanna Claim, 1753-1808. | Frontier and pioneer life -- Pennsylvania -- Wyoming Valley. | Indians of North America -- Pennsylvania -- Wyoming Valley -- History. | Wyoming Valley (Pa.) -- History. | Electronic books.
Year: 2007
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Originally presented as the author's thesis (Ph. D.)--College of William and Mary, 1999.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 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.

Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2013. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.

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