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Border life : experience and memory in the Revolutionary Ohio Valley / Elizabeth A. Perkins.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Perkins, Elizabeth A., 1952-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Frontier and pioneer life--Ohio River Valley.
- Frontier and pioneer life.
- Land settlement.
- History.
- Biography.
- Pioneers.
- Interviews.
- Ohio River Valley.
- Pioneers--Ohio River Valley--Interviews.
- Ohio River Valley--History--Revolution, 1775-1783.
- Ohio River Valley--Biography.
- Land settlement--Ohio River Valley--History--18th century.
- Physical Description:
- xiv, 253 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
- Other Title:
- Experience and memory in the Revolutionary Ohio Valley
- Place of Publication:
- Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [1998]
- Summary:
- Richly detailed, BORDER LIFE captures the intimate universe of those who colonized Kentucky and southern Ohio during the Revolutionary era. In reconstructing the mental world of border inhabitants, Elizabeth Perkins draws on the records of an Ohio clergyman who conducted hundreds of interviews with survivors in the 1840s to provide a vivid portrait of pioneer life in the words of the settlers themselves. 10 illustrations.
- Notes:
- Contains interviews conducted by the Rev. John Dabney Shane in the 1840s and 1850s.
- Based on the author's dissertation.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 225-242) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0807824003
- 0807847038
- OCLC:
- 37368528
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