Index

Kapitel in diesem Buch

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. List of Illustrations ix
4. Acknowledgments xi
5. A Note on Terminology xiii
6. Abbreviations xv
7. Introduction: A Farmer’s Revolution 1
8. 1. “Among Quarrelsome Yankees, Insidious Indians, and Lonely Wilds”: Natives, Colonists, and the Wyoming Controversy 13
9. 2. “A Great Many Wrangling Disputes”: Authority, Allegiance, Property, and the Frontier War for Independence 37
10. 3. “A Dangerous Combination of Villains”: The Social Context of Agrarian Resistance 65
11. 4. “All the Difficulties of Forming a New Settlement”: Frontier Migration, Land Speculation, and Settler Insurgency 94
12. 5. “A Perfect Union with the People”: Cultures of Resistance along the Revolutionary Frontier 120
13. 6. “Poor and Ignorant but Industrious Settlers”: Frontier Development and the Path to Accommodation 148
14. 7. “Artful Deceivers”: Yankee Notables and the Resolution of the Wyoming Controversy 175
15. Epilogue: Closing the Revolutionary Frontier 196
16. Selected Bibliography 201
17. Index 211