FOOTNOTES:

[1] Merle Curti et al., The Making of an American Community: A Case Study of Democracy in a Frontier County (Stanford, 1959), p. 3.

[2] Frontier and Section: Selected Essays of Frederick Jackson Turner, intro. by Ray Allen Billington (Englewood Cliffs, N. J., 1961), pp. 52-55.


Table of Contents

Preface[iii]
Introduction[v]
I.Fair Play Territory: Geography and Topography[1]
II.The Fair Play Settlers: Demographic Factors[16]
III.The Politics of Fair Play[30]
IV.The Farmers' Frontier[47]
V.Fair Play Society[58]
VI.Leadership and the Problems of the Frontier[76]
VII.Democracy on the Pennsylvania Frontier[89]
VIII.Frontier Ethnography and the Turner Thesis[100]
Bibliography[113]
Index[119]


CHAPTER ONE