Wild Yankees : The Struggle for Independence along Pennsylvania's Revolutionary Frontier.

Wild Yankees -- 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.

With vivid descriptions of the various levels of this conflict, Moyer shows that the Wyoming controversy illuminates settlement, the daily lives of settlers, and agrarian unrest along the early American frontier.

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