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100 1 _aWolf, George D.,
_d1923-
245 1 4 _aThe Fair Play Settlers of the West Branch Valley, 1769-1784 :
_bA Study of Frontier Ethnography
264 1 _aSalt Lake City, UT :
_bProject Gutenberg,
_c2007
300 _a1 online resource :
_bmultiple file formats
336 _atext
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_2rdacontent
337 _acomputer
_bc
_2rdamedia
338 _aonline resource
_bcr
_2rdacarrier
500 _aRelease date is 2007-08-31
508 _aProduced by Greg Weeks, Stephen Blundell and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net
520 _a"The Fair Play Settlers of the West Branch Valley, 1769-1784" by George D. Wolf is a historical account written in the late 20th century. The book thoroughly examines the lives of the Fair Play settlers, highlighting their political and societal structures during a pivotal time in American frontier history. It aims to explore how this unique community contributed to the development of democratic ideals on the frontier. The opening of the study introduces the Fair Play settlers' geographic context between 1769 and 1784, illustrating how about 100 to 150 families established a political organization known as the Fair Play system in response to their status as squatters beyond colonial jurisdiction. It references the significance of democracy rising from their extra-legal governance, and the chapter outlines the foundational experience of these settlers, who were largely Scotch-Irish, during their transition from wilderness to community. The author emphasizes that this study is intended not as a complete representation of frontier life but instead as a specific case to understand broader democratic development in early American history. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
534 _nOriginal publication data not identified
653 _aFrontier and pioneer life -- Pennsylvania
653 _aLycoming County (Pa.) -- History
856 4 0 _uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/22471
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