Chapters: Fair Play Territory: Geography and Topography --- The Fair Play Settlers: Demographic Factors --- The Politics of Fair Play --- The Farmers' Frontier --- Fair Play Society --- Leadership and the Problems of the Frontier --- Democracy on the Pennsylvania Frontier --- Frontier Ethnography and the Turner Thesis
Summary
The book discusses a self-governing community established in an area that was between today's Williamsport and Lock Haven, settled primarily by Scotch-Irish immigrants who had felt unwelcome in the Province of Pennsylvania.
History of the early settlement of the Juniata valley: embracing an account of the early pioneers, and the trials and privations incident to the settlement of the valley, predatory incursions, massacres, and abductions by the Indians during the French and Indian wars, and the war of the revolution, &c
By U. J. Jones. With notes and extensions compiled as a glossary from the memoirs of early settlers, the pension statements of revolutionary war soldiers, and other source material, by Floyd G. Hoenstine ...
Henry William Elson (1857-1935) was a professor of history at Ohio State University. He states in the preface that he has endeavored to write this history for the general reader . He says that he has tried to include information about the lives of the people and not just politics, government and industry.
" A do-it-yourself guide for a walking tour of the central section of Lancaster,Pennsylvania , America's oldest inland city and county seat of the Garden Spot of The World " [from the title page]
