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...