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

Contents

Contents List of Illustrations ix Acknowledgments xi A Note on Terminology xiii Abbreviations xv Introduction: A Farmer’s Revolution 1 1. “Among Quarrelsome Yankees, Insidious Indians, and Lonely Wilds”: Natives, Colonists, and the Wyoming Controversy 13 2. “A Great Many Wrangling Disputes”: Authority, Allegiance, Property, and the Frontier War for Independence 37 3. “A Dangerous Combination of Villains”: The Social Context of Agrarian Resistance 65 4. “All the Difficulties of Forming a New Settlement”: Frontier Migration, Land Speculation, and Settler Insurgency 94 5. “A Perfect Union with the People”: Cultures of Resistance along the Revolutionary Frontier 120 6. “Poor and Ignorant but Industrious Settlers”: Frontier Development and the Path to Accommodation 148 7. “Artful Deceivers”: Yankee Notables and the Resolution of the Wyoming Controversy 175 Epilogue: Closing the Revolutionary Frontier 196 Selected Bibliography 201 Index 211 vii This page intentionally left blank. ...