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The Fair Play settlers of the West Branch Valley, 1769-1784: a study of frontier ethnography

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Author
Wolf, George D.,
Date of Publication
1969.
Call Number
974.80069 W853
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Responsibility
by George D. Wolf.
Author
Wolf, George D.,
Place of Publication
Harrisburg
Publisher
Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission,
Date of Publication
1969.
Physical Description
x, 122 p. map. 24 cm.
Notes
Bibliography: p. 113-118.
Contents
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.
Subjects
Frontier and pioneer life - Pennsylvania.
Lycoming County (Pa.) - History.
Additional Corporate Author
Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Book
Call Number
974.80069 W853
Websites
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