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Moyer (history, SUNY Brockport) describes the conflict between settlers in Northeast Pennsylvania's Wyoming Valley, called the Wyoming controversy, which lasted from the mid-eighteenth century to the beginning of the nineteenth. Proposing that understanding the controversy depends on awareness of the settlers' struggle for agrarian independence, he explains how the meaning of independence flowed from the American Revolution and how the struggle for land meant a fight for liberty. Each chapter considers how an aspect of frontier experience connected to the struggle for independence. The book is based on his dissertation. Annotation c2008 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
