Indian Stream Republic: Settling a New England Frontier, 1785-1842

by Daniel Doan

Book Overview

In the late 18th and early 19th centuries, while governments, politicians, and entrepreneurs argued about the boundary between northern New England and British Canada, a group of hardy individuals were otherwise occupied, carving a life in the wooded frontier that would come to be known as Indian Stream. The Treaty of Paris ending the American Revolution set the US boundary at "the northwesternmost head of the Connecticut River," but with three streams...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0874517680
• ISBN13: 9780874517682
• Release Date: January 1997
• Publisher: University Press of New England
• Length: 287 Pages
• Weight: 0.98 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.9" x 9.0"