Wild Yankees : the struggle for independence along Pennsylvania's revolutionary frontier / / Paul B. Moyer.
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| Year of Publication: | 2007 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | xvi, 216 p. :; maps, ports. |
| Notes: | Originally presented as the author's thesis (Ph. D.)--College of William and Mary, 1999. |
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Table of Contents:
- 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.