An exhibition and catalogue researched and prepared by Anita Schorsch. March 28 through May 23, 1976, William Penn Memorial Museum, Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. June 1 through July 15, 1976, Albany Institute of History and Art, Albany, New York.
Edition
[First ed.
Place of Publication
New Jersey
Publisher
The Main Street Press,
Date of Publication
1976]
Physical Description
unpaged [86] p. : 75 figures (some col.) ; 21 x 21 cm.
Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission,
Date of Publication
1980.
Physical Description
iv, 89 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Notes
Chapters include: Founding documents, William Penn's problems, Stormy politics, Problems of society (black and slave issues), Territorial delineation, westward expansion and Indian affairs, The French and Indian War and its consequences and The Revolutionary period.
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.
