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.
" 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]
These volumes are in the "library work room". They are not on the open shelves. However, there is an index on the open shelves. Its call number is 905.748 CHS Index. Patrons should consult the index first. If there is a volume that they want to see, the library attendant should pull the volume from the shelves in the "library work room".