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.
"This book describes 131 paths with maps, history, significant points along the way, and information on approximating the course of the trails by automobile. Five appendices trace other historically significant routes such as the Forbes Road and George Washington's1753 path to Fort LeBoeuf." [from the publisher]
This booklet was issued on the occasion of the dedication of a memorial plaque at his birthplace near Oxford, Chester county, Pennsylvana, on September 26, 1964. Sponsors: Chester County Historical Society; Penn State Alumni Club of Chester county; Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission; The Pennsylvania State University.
