[18] Turner, _The Frontier in American History_, pp. 1, 18.
[19] _The Journal of William Colbert_ gives frequent testimony to this statement, as indicated in Chapter Five.
[20] _See_ the map in Chapter One for the geographic boundaries of the Fair Play territory. Note the location of the top leaders, Henry and Frederick Antes and Robert Fleming, in Chapter Six.
[21] The number of different office-holders runs to better than ten per cent of the population.
[22] Turner, _The Frontier in American History_, pp. 333-334.
[26] Meginness, _Otzinachson_ (1857), pp. 163-164.
[27] _See_ Chapter Seven for an evaluation of "Democracy on the Pennsylvania Frontier."
[28] Turner, _The Frontier in American History_, p. 307.
[29] Richard Hofstadter, "The Myth of the Happy Yeoman," _American Heritage_, VII, No. 3 (April, 1956), 43-53.
[30] The term "the personality of the law" is Turner's and emphasizes the men who carried out the law, rather than its structure. The fact that the ruling tribunal of the West Branch Valley was referred to as the "Fair Play men" rather than the "tribunal" illustrates this contention.
[31] Turner, _The Frontier in American History_, pp. 253-254.
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