LEADER 04564nam 2200649 a 450 001 9910457094403321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a0-8014-6172-3 024 7 $a10.7591/9780801461729 035 $a(CKB)2550000000035232 035 $a(OCoLC)732957168 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10468070 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000542652 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11330267 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000542652 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10510598 035 $a(PQKB)10525483 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3138191 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse28871 035 $a(DE-B1597)480030 035 $a(OCoLC)979575519 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780801461729 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3138191 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10468070 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL823640 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000000035232 100 $a20070524d2007 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aWild Yankees$b[electronic resource] $ethe struggle for independence along Pennsylvania's revolutionary frontier /$fPaul B. Moyer 210 $aIthaca $cCornell University Press$d2007 215 $a1 online resource (232 p.) 300 $aOriginally presented as the author's thesis (Ph. D.)--College of William and Mary, 1999. 311 $a0-8014-4494-2 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 201-209) and index. 327 $aIntroduction : a farmer's revolution -- "Among quarrelsome Yankees, insidious Indians, and lonely wilds" : natives, colonists, and the Wyoming controversy -- "A great many wrangling disputes" : authority, allegiance, property, and the frontier war for independence -- "A dangerous combination of villains" : the social context of agrarian resistance -- "All the difficulties of forming a new settlement" : frontier migration, land speculation, and settler insurgency -- "A perfect union with the people" : cultures of resistance along the revolutionary frontier -- "Poor and ignorant but industrious settlers" : frontier development and the path to accommodation -- "Artful deceivers" : Yankee notables and the resolution of the Wyoming controversy -- Epilogue : closing the revolutionary frontier. 330 $aNortheast Pennsylvania's Wyoming Valley was truly a dark and bloody ground, the site of murders, massacres, and pitched battles. The valley's turbulent history was the product of a bitter contest over property and power known as the Wyoming controversy. This dispute, which raged between the mid-eighteenth and early-nineteenth centuries, intersected with conflicts between whites and native peoples over land, a jurisdictional contest between Pennsylvania and Connecticut, violent contention over property among settlers and land speculators, and the social tumult of the American Revolution. In its later stages, the controversy pitted Pennsylvania and its settlers and speculators against "Wild Yankees"-frontier insurgents from New England who contested the state's authority and soil rights.In Wild Yankees, Paul B. Moyer argues that a struggle for personal independence waged by thousands of ordinary settlers lay at the root of conflict in northeast Pennsylvania and across the revolutionary-era frontier. The concept and pursuit of independence was not limited to actual war or high politics; it also resonated with ordinary people, such as the Wild Yankees, who pursued their own struggles for autonomy. This battle for independence drew settlers into contention with native peoples, wealthy speculators, governments, and each other over land, the shape of America's postindependence social order, and the meaning of the Revolution. With vivid descriptions of the various levels of this conflict, Moyer shows that the Wyoming controversy illuminates settlement, the daily lives of settlers, and agrarian unrest along the early American frontier. 606 $aSusquehanna Claim, 1753-1808 606 $aFrontier and pioneer life$zPennsylvania$zWyoming Valley 606 $aIndians of North America$zPennsylvania$zWyoming Valley$xHistory 607 $aWyoming Valley (Pa.)$xHistory 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aSusquehanna Claim, 1753-1808. 615 0$aFrontier and pioneer life 615 0$aIndians of North America$xHistory. 676 $a974.8/01 700 $aMoyer$b Paul Benjamin$f1970-$01044333 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910457094403321 996 $aWild Yankees$92478092 997 $aUNINA