Government and Politics
St. John's College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
The Frontier War for American
Independence
Publisher: Stackpole Books
Mechanicsburg, PA
2004, 423 pages
Although the American Revolution is commonly associated with
specific locations such as the heights above Boston or the frozen
Delaware River, important events took place in the wooded,
mountainous lands of the frontier. The vicious war on the frontier
significantly altered the course of the Revolution and involved
regular troops, volunteers and Indians who clashed in large-scale
campaigns and bloody fights for land, home and family. Nester
brings this long-obscured chapter of the War for Independence out
from the shadows of Concord and Brandywine and reshapes how we
understand American history.