Wild Yankees by Paul B. Moyer | Audiobook

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Listen to free audiobook with a 30 day free trial : https://esound.space/audible Title: Wild Yankees Author: Paul B. Moyer Narrator: Chris Chappell Format: Unabridged Length: 8 hrs and 54 mins Language: English Release date: 06-23-17 Publisher: University Press Audiobooks Genres: History, American Summary: Northeast 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-18th and early 19th 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 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. It 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. The book is published by Cornell University Press. Contact: [email protected]