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Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2007

1 online resource (xvi, 216 p.) : maps, ports

ISBN 9780801461729 (electronic bk.)

ISBN 0801444942 (cloth : alk. paper)

ISBN 9780801444944 (cloth : alk. paper)

Originally presented as the author’s thesis (Ph. D.)--College of William and Mary, 1999

Includes bibliographical references (p. 201-209) and index

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

Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries

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