Arthur Johnson Memorial Library

Leach, Douglas Edward

The Northern Colonial Frontier, 1607-1763. Douglas Edward Leach - New York, Holt, Rinehart and Winston [1966] - xviii, 266 p. illus., maps. 24 cm. - Histories of the American frontier .

Bibliography: p. 239-255.

The challenge of the unknown wilderness --
The coastal pioneers: Plymouth and New Netherland, 1620-1664 --
The tidal wave of the English, 1630-1675 --
War and peace, 1675-1689 --
The life of the pioneer --
The early fur trade, 1607-1689 --
English-French Imperial Rivalry, 1689-1713 --
The expanding frontier, 1713-1743 --
The fur trade and English-French rivalry --
Land speculation --
Christianity on the northern frontier --
The overthrow of new France.

Presents a history of the colonial frontier from the perspective of the Anglo-American settlers who inhabited the colonies from New England to Pennsylvania.

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Frontier and pioneer life--Northeastern States


Northeastern States--History
United States--Territorial expansion

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