Wild Yankees : : The Struggle for Independence along Pennsylvania's Revolutionary Frontier / / Paul B. Moyer.
Northeast Pennsylvania's Wyoming Valley was truly a dark and bloody ground, the site of murders, massacres, and pitched battles. The valley's turbulent history was the product of a bitter contest over property and power known as the Wyoming controversy. This dispute, which raged between th...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Backlist 2000-2013 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2011] ©2015 |
| Year of Publication: | 2011 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (232 p.) :; 4 maps, 3 halftones |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Acknowledgments
- A Note on Terminology
- Abbreviations
- Introduction: A Farmer’s Revolution
- 1. “Among Quarrelsome Yankees, Insidious Indians, and Lonely Wilds”: Natives, Colonists, and the Wyoming Controversy
- 2. “A Great Many Wrangling Disputes”: Authority, Allegiance, Property, and the Frontier War for Independence
- 3. “A Dangerous Combination of Villains”: The Social Context of Agrarian Resistance
- 4. “All the Difficulties of Forming a New Settlement”: Frontier Migration, Land Speculation, and Settler Insurgency
- 5. “A Perfect Union with the People”: Cultures of Resistance along the Revolutionary Frontier
- 6. “Poor and Ignorant but Industrious Settlers”: Frontier Development and the Path to Accommodation
- 7. “Artful Deceivers”: Yankee Notables and the Resolution of the Wyoming Controversy
- Epilogue: Closing the Revolutionary Frontier
- Selected Bibliography
- Index