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X-Sender: cmbrow@mail.wm.edu To: H-NET/OIEAHC Electronic Association in Early American Studies <H-OIEAHC@H-NET.MSU.EDU> William Byrd gives us a wonderful description of the lower sort of backcountry whites in the -History of the Dividing Line-. "Lubbers," he calls them. I use this term throughout the first half of my intellectual and cultural history survey--after assigning the relevant reading, of course--for it helps to set up Crevecoeur and many other observers of western settlement--as late as Clarence King's -Mountaineering in the Sierra Nevadas- I'm not sure how one would teach theories of political economy in the early republic without recourse to the term "yeoman," which seems to have had a pretty concrete meaning for intellectuals of that period-- Chandos Brown
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