This edition features• a linked Table of ContentsCONTENTSPrefaceIntroductionI. Fair Play Territory: Geography and TopographyII. The Fair Play Settlers: Demographic FactorsIII. The Politics of Fair PlayIV. The Farmers' FrontierV. Fair Play SocietyVI. Leadership and the Problems of the FrontierVII. Democracy on the Pennsylvania FrontierVIII. Frontier Ethnography and the Turner ThesisBibliography...

Bring history back to life through Jim Hodges' historically accurate, exciting, and edifying audio recordings.Shortly before the United States Revolutionary war against England, most inhabitants were her loyal subjects. France had control of much of southern Canada and the "western" lands of the current states of Pennsylvania and Ohio. Skirmishes abounded for years between English settlers pushing west and French settlers and her Indian accomplices. The Seven Years War in Europe sp...

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In the Lebanese village of Bhamdoun in 1931, Joseph Friedmann is born to a 15-year-old Syrian-Jewish girl hastily married off to a Belgian businessman thirty years her senior. After his parents divorce, Joseph's new Christian step-father refuses to rear a Jewish child. At the age of eight, Joseph is banished to a Catholic convent, where he experiences betrayal, anti-Semitism, and a deep trauma he cannot bring himself to name. He learns to survive by locking away his feelings. But at the ag...

In "The Whelps of the Wolf," George P. Marsh presents a compelling narrative interwoven with allegorical elements that delve into the themes of power, identity, and societal conflict. The novel is characterized by its rich, descriptive prose and a profound philosophical undercurrent that reflects the influences of Romanticism and Transcendentalism. Marsh artfully constructs a world that examines the consequences of tyranny and the quest for individual autonomy, drawing parallels between th...

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In "Wagner, the Wehr-Wolf," George W. M. Reynolds delves into the gothic and sensationalist traditions of the 19th century, weaving a narrative rich with supernatural elements and psychological intrigue. The novel follows the exploits of the titular character, Wagner, an enigmatic figure whose curse transforms him into a werewolf under the moon's glow. The text captures Reynolds's mastery of melodramatic prose and vivid imagery, reflecting the anxieties of Victorian society around the them...

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Yellow Wolf was the youngest war chief that the Chiricahua Band of Apache Indians had ever had at the age of twenty-four.In the years following the war between the states, many whites began crossing their lands and some even trying to take up land there. The mountains and desert area between Las Cruces New Mexico and Tucson, Arizona had been their home for generations. Yellow Wolf's parents had been killed by white traders when he was only ten. Now that, coupled with the white settl...