Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission,
Date of Publication
1961.
Physical Description
xiii, 194 p. : ill., maps ; 23 cm.
Notes
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary
"This classic study of the history of Pennsylvania's Indians, from the time of the European contact forward, was originally published in 1961. This accessible work explores the primary groups of Indian peoples most important to Pennsylvania's history-its most prevalent, primarily the Delaware or Lenni Lenape and the Susquehannock people, and the outside groups that had the largest impact upon Pennsylvania, primarily the neighboring Iroquois and refugee groups such as the Shawnee. The volume explores customs, governance, belief systems, conflict, migration, and policy, among many other topics. Sympathetic and balanced, this book has long been considered one of the best books on the Indian peoples of Pennsylvania." [from Amazon.com]
by Georg Conrad Beissel ; translated from the German by Michelle S. Long ; illustrated by Nancy L. Coleman ; compiled and edited by Nadine A. Steinmetz.
Ephrata Cloister Associates in cooperation with the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission,
Date of Publication
1991.
Physical Description
xii, 44 p. : ill. ; 18 x 23 cm.
Notes
Extracted from Erster Theil der Theosophischen Lectionen Betreffende die Schulen des einsamen Lebens (The first part of the theosophical lessons pertaining to the instruction of the solitary life) printed at Ephrata Cloister in 1752.
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.
