The Fair Play Settlers of the West Branch Valley, 1769-1784 / A Study of Frontier Ethnography

by George D. Wolf

[22] Turner, The Frontier in American History, pp. 333-334.

[23] Ibid., pp. 306-307.

[24] Ibid., p. 306.

[25] Ibid.

[26] Meginness, Otzinachson (1857), pp. 163-164.

[27] See [Chapter Seven] for an evaluation of "Democracy on the Pennsylvania Frontier."

[28] Turner, The Frontier in American History, p. 307.

[29] Richard Hofstadter, "The Myth of the Happy Yeoman," American Heritage, VII, No. 3 (April, 1956), 43-53.

[30] The term "the personality of the law" is Turner's and emphasizes the men who carried out the law, rather than its structure. The fact that the ruling tribunal of the West Branch Valley was referred to as the "Fair Play men" rather than the "tribunal" illustrates this contention.

[31] Turner, The Frontier in American History, pp. 253-254.