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Wild Yankees : the struggle for independence along Pennsylvania's revolutionary frontier
"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 is the product of a bitter contest over property and power known as the Wyoming controversy. This dispute, which raged betwe...
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Ithaca :
Cornell University Press,
2007.
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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.