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The Frontier and the Backcountry
- Constructing Societies and Reconstructing
- Shaping of American Character, institutions, values
- Turner's frontier thesis and problems
- Concord, Massachusetts
- Founded in 1635, 1,500 in 256 families by 1775
- Nature of town life and politics
- Declining town
- Northern backcountry
- Carisle, Pennsylvannia: 1751, families
- Gateway to backcountry
- Market mentality and trade networks
- Material culture in homes
- Backcountry in the 18th Century: Turner's Old West
- Backcountry characteristics
- Geography, population growth, ethnic diversity, Indians
- Economic aspects
- Encounter with Indians
- New Society
- Conflict with East
- Daniel Boone and the Middle Ground
- Quakers in Penn. to backcountry
- Convergence with Indians
- Family and hunting
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