Wild Yankees
Subtitle: the struggle for independence along Pennsylvania's revolutionary frontier
By: Paul B. Moyer.
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Ithaca
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780801444944
Subjects: Susquehanna Claim, 1753-1808; Frontier and pioneer life -- Pennsylvania -- Wyoming Valley; Indians of North America -- Pennsylvania -- Wyoming Valley -- History; Wyoming Valley (Pa.) -- History
Notes: Originally presented as the author's thesis (Ph. D.)--College of William and Mary, 1999.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : a farmer's revolution; title: "Among quarrelsome Yankees, insidious Indians, and lonely wilds" : natives, colonists, and the Wyoming controversy; title: "A great many wrangling disputes" : authority, allegiance, property, and the frontier war for independence; title: "A dangerous combination of villains" : the social context of agrarian resistance; title: "All the difficulties of forming a new settlement" : frontier migration, land speculation, and settler insurgency; title: "A perfect union with the people" : cultures of resistance along the revolutionary frontier; title: "Poor and ignorant but industrious settlers" : frontier development and the path to accommodation; title: "Artful deceivers" : Yankee notables and the resolution of the Wyoming controversy; title: Epilogue : closing the revolutionary frontier.