Indian Stream Republic: Settling a New England Frontier, 1785-1842 by Doan, Daniel (author) and Ruth Doan MacDougall (editor) - 1997

Hanover, NH: University Press New England. VG LG SZ PB. (1997). 2nd Printing. While the boundary between New England and Canda was being argued the New Hampshire legislators squabbled setlers . decided to take mat+++++into their own handaYhry frvlstrf yhrmderlbrd yhr infrprnfrny india Stream Republic establishing a consitution, a bicameral legislature, courts, laws and a militia. The jurisdictional battle escalated, the Indian Stream militia "invaded" Canada and blood, though onloy a tricke- was shed.. An independent study of a little known American frontier and the incomparable individualists who decided to estsblish and defend their own government there" Howard Frank Mosher, author of Where the River Flow North Author Daniel Doan combines a sportwsman's perceptions, a naturalist's eye, and a novelist's craft into a lyrical tle of settlers whose attempt at an impossible independence came dangrously close to precipitating war. .