Wild Yankees : the struggle for independence along Pennsylvania's revolutionary frontier

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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Bibliografische gegevens
Hoofdauteur: Moyer, Paul Benjamin, 1970-
Formaat: E-boek
Taal:English
Gepubliceerd in: Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2007.
Onderwerpen:
1753-1808
Susquehanna Claim, 1753-1808.
Frontier and pioneer life > Pennsylvania > Wyoming Valley.
Indians of North America > Pennsylvania > Wyoming Valley > History.
HISTORY > United States > State & Local > Middle Atlantic (DC, DE, MD, NJ, NY, PA)
HISTORY > United States > State & Local > General.
HISTORY > United States > State & Local > New England (CT, MA, ME, NH, RI, VT)
Frontier and pioneer life
Indians of North America
Wyoming Valley (Pa.) > History.
Pennsylvania > Wyoming Valley
History
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Inhoudsopgave:
  • 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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