Border life
Subtitle: experience and memory in the Revolutionary Ohio Valley
By: Elizabeth A. Perkins.
Contributors: Shane, John Dabney, 1812-1864.
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Published: 1998
Place of publication: Chapel Hill
Language: eng
Number of pages: 253
Subjects: Frontier and pioneer life -- Ohio River Valley.; Pioneers -- Ohio River Valley -- Interviews.; Land settlement -- Ohio River Valley -- History -- 18th century.; Ohio River Valley -- History -- Revolution, 1775-1783.; Ohio River Valley -- Biography.
Description: In this original and sensitive ethnography of frontier life, Elizabeth Perkins recovers the rhythms of warfare, subsistence, and cultural encounter that governed existence on the margins of British America. Richly detailed, Border Life captures the intimate perceptive universe of the men and women who colonized Kentucky and southern Ohio during the Revolutionary era.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 225-242) and index.
Contains interviews conducted by the Rev. John Dabney Shane in the 1840s and 1850s.
Based on the author's dissertation.