Introduction : a farmer's revolution
"Among quarrelsome Yankees, insidious Indians, and lonely wilds" : natives, colonists, and the Wyoming controversy
"A great many wrangling disputes" : authority, allegiance, property, and the frontier war for independence
"A dangerous combination of villains" : the social context of agrarian resistance
"All the difficulties of forming a new settlement" : frontier migration, land speculation, and settler insurgency
"A perfect union with the people" : cultures of resistance along the revolutionary frontier
"Poor and ignorant but industrious settlers" : frontier development and the path to accommodation
"Artful deceivers" : Yankee notables and the resolution of the Wyoming controversy
Epilogue : closing the revolutionary frontier.