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Perkins, Elizabeth A., 1952-
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Frontier and pioneer life -- Ohio River Valley.
Pioneers -- Ohio River Valley -- Interviews.
Electronic books.
Land settlement -- Ohio River Valley -- History -- 18th century.
Ohio River Valley -- History -- Revolution, 1775-1783.
Ohio River Valley -- Biography.
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Border life : experience and memory in the Revolutionary
Ohio
Valley
[electronic resource] / Elizabeth A. Perkins.
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Perkins, Elizabeth A., 1952-
Subjects
Frontier and pioneer life
--
Ohio
River
Valley
.
Pioneers
--
Ohio
River
Valley
--
Interviews
.
Electronic books.
Land settlement
--
Ohio
River
Valley
--
History
--
18th century.
Ohio
River
Valley
--
History
--
Revolution, 1775-1783.
Ohio
River
Valley
--
Biography.
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[United States] : The University of North Carolina Press, 2017.
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9780807863831 (electronic bk.)
0807863831 (electronic bk.)
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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. In reconstructing the mental world of border inhabitants, Perkins draws on a pioneering source in oral history. In the 1840s, the Reverend John Dabney Shane conducted hundreds of
interviews
with surviving western settlers, gathering their recollections on topics ranging from food preparation to encounters with Native Americans. Although Shane's
interviews
have long been hailed as a rich, if complicated, source for western history, Perkins is the first scholar to consider them critically, as texts for cultural analysis. Border Life also deepens our understanding of how ordinary people struggled to make sense of their own lives within the stream of history. Discovering a significant disjuncture between recorded memory and written history in accounts of the early frontier, Perkins shows how historians and popular authors reshaped the messy complexities of remembered experience into heroic--and radically simplified--conquest narratives.
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