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Border life : experience and memory in the Revolutionary Ohio Valley
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Border life : experience and memory in the Revolutionary Ohio Valley

Author: Elizabeth A Perkins; John Dabney Shane
Publisher: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, ©1998.
Edition/Format:   Book : Biography : State or province government publication : EnglishView all editions and formats
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In this original and sensitive ethnography of frontier life, Elizabeth Perkins recovers the rhythms of warfare, subsistence, and cultural encounter that governed existence on the margins of British America. Richly detailed, Border Life captures the intimate perceptive universe of the men and women who colonized Kentucky and southern Ohio during the Revolutionary era.
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Genre/Form: Interviews
Biography
Additional Physical Format: Online version:
Perkins, Elizabeth A., 1952-
Border life.
Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c1998
(OCoLC)605359584
Material Type: Biography, Government publication, State or province government publication
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Elizabeth A Perkins; John Dabney Shane
ISBN: 0807824003 9780807824009 0807847038 9780807847039
OCLC Number: 37368528
Notes: Contains interviews conducted by the Rev. John Dabney Shane in the 1840s and 1850s.
Based on the author's dissertation.
Description: xiv, 253 p. ; ill., maps ; 25 cm.
Contents: What They Themselves Know --
Views of the Western Country --
Distinctions and Partitions amongst Us --
The Politics of Power --
Indian Times --
App. A. Item List of John D. Shane's "Historical Collections" --
App. B. John D. Shane's Interview with Jane Stevenson, [ca. 1841-1842].
Responsibility: Elizabeth A. Perkins.
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In this original and sensitive ethnography of frontier life, Elizabeth Perkins recovers the rhythms of warfare, subsistence, and cultural encounter that governed existence on the margins of British America. Richly detailed, Border Life captures the intimate perceptive universe of the men and women who colonized Kentucky and southern Ohio during the Revolutionary era.

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