The Brittle Thread of Life: Backcountry People Make a Place for Themselves in Early America by Mark Carlson Williams

The Brittle Thread of Life: Backcountry People Make a Place for Themselves in Early America

Mark Carlson Williams

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The colonists who settled the backcountry in eighteenth-century New England were recruited from the social fringe, people who were desperate for land, autonomy, and respectability and who were willing to make a hard living in a rugged environment....

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