Chapters: The developer's frontier : background and setting - The township surveys of 1797-1799 - Opening the purchase - Settlement policy on the developer's frontier - Commercial policy on the developer's frontier - Settlers on the developer's frontier - The changing frontier landscape - A legacy on the landscape.
Summary
"This book tells how one nineteenth-century group of developers, the Holland Land Company, promoted and organized a settlement of vast wilderness tracts in western New York state. Wyckoff shows that the experience of eastern developers was distinctive from that of other frontier settlers; unlike the isolated pioneer of Frederick Jackson Turner's frontier model or the land speculator in search of quick profits that other historians have described, eastern frontier developers fostered long-term settlement and regional growth by means of carefully formulated and comprehensive plans. Wyckoff discusses how these developers designed surveys, village plats, roads, urban centers, and services to attract desirable settlers..." [book jacket]
Chapters: Amish Backgrounds and Customs --- The Development of the Amish School System -- The Amish Educational System Today -- The Amish Schools -- Amish Teachers -- Amish Educational Methods -- The Amish "Scholar" -- Amish Educational Outcomes -- Conclusions
