num_pages: 408
description: This detailed exploration of the settlement of Maine beginning in the late eighteenth century illuminates the violent, widespread contests along the American frontier that served to define and complete the American Revolution. Taylor shows how Maine's militant settlers organized secret companies to defend their populist understanding of the Revolution.
language: English
title: Liberty Men and Great Proprietors: The Revolutionary Settlement on the Maine Frontier, 1760-1820
titlecomplete: Liberty Men and Great Proprietors: The Revolutionary Settlement on the Maine Frontier, 1760-1820 (Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture)
genres: Nonfiction, History
ratings_count: 62
publisher: Omohundro Institute and UNC Press