The Eastern Frontier
In this fascinating social history of America’s first frontier, Charles Clark brings to life the people and settlements of Maine and New Hampshire before the Revolutionary War. He describes what life was like beyond the Merrimack from the early fishing camps on the coast to the settlement of mid-eighteenth-century wilderness towns in the interior.
The sturdy, independent men who first settled the craggy islands and salt marsh harbors of northern New England were a very different breed from their Puritan brethren to the south—they came to fish and trade, not to pray. Clark depicts their early brawling and lawless settlements, and their later taming by a morality imported from Massachusetts Bay. He demonstrates that to a large extent almost constant…
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May 1, 2013Charles Edwin Clark was born in Brunswick, Maine, in 1929. He received his AB from Bates College in 1951, his MS from the Graduate School of Journalism, Columbia University, in 1952, and his PhD in American civilization from Brown University in 1966. In the 1950s he served in the US Navy as an air intelligence officer and as a reporter for the Valley News, West Lebanon, New Hampshire, and the Providence Journal and Evening Bulletin, Providence, Rhode Island. From 1965 to 1967 he was an assistant professor of history at Southeastern Massachusetts Technological Institute. Clark passed away in 2013.
