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The colonial backcountry became the first national frontier for the United States, and the experiences of its settlers, institutions, and development had a profound impact on future frontiers. ... The study of the colonial backcountry basically encapsulates the region of settlement which lay just beyond, and,
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The growth of the route into the principal highway of the colonial back country is important in the development of the nation. ... And as different as the Germans and the Scots Irish were, they had what it took to flourish in the backcountry. Not possessions that could be lost in the fording of a river, not personal contacts...
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Some went to escape an odious labor contract and others to escape debt or other inconveniences common in the English colonial settlements, like wholesale hunger. But, more or less, all escaped into the backcountry, the unmapped, unknown frontier lands away from the coastal enclaves.
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The Southern Colonial Backcountry.- Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Frontier Communities. Edited by DAVID COLIN CRASS, STEVEN D. SMITH, MARTHA A. ZIERDEN, and RICHARD D. BROOKS. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1998. xxvii, 256 pp. $38.00.
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Yielding new insights unlikely to emerge under a single disciplinary analysis, The Southern Colonial Backcountry is a unique volume that highlights the need for interdisciplinary approaches to the backcountry while identifying common research problems in the field.
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The Backcountry Towns of Colonial Virginia, the first comprehensive study of town development in the interior of the colonial South, marshals evidence that planned urban settlements were the essential agents in accelerating westward expansion.
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The Backcountry Comity: Patterns of Migration, Settlement, and Association ... Most geographic migration in both the British borderlands and the American backcountry consisted of short-distance movements that covered only a few miles, as families searched for slightly better living conditions.
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Early American History ... The backcountry was also called the frontier. It was the area beyond the ... People lived simply in the backcountry. Houses were log cabins or made...
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