Moyer (history, SUNY Brockport) describes the conflict between settlers in Northeast Pennsylvania's Wyoming Valley, called the Wyoming controversy, which lasted from the mid-eighteenth century to the
In The Public Universal Friend, Paul B. Moyer tells the story of Jemima Wilkinson and her remarkable church, the Society of Universal Friends.The life of the Public Universal Friend and the Friend's c
With vivid descriptions of the various levels of this conflict, Moyer shows that the Wyoming controversy illuminates settlement, the daily lives of settlers, and agrarian unrest along the early Americ