These books provided background materials that were helpful in trying to re-create an eighteenth-century Penn’s Woods:
Beachy, Leroy, Unser Leit: The Story of the Amish (Millersburg, OH: Goodly Heritage Books, 2011).
Grove, Myrna, The Path to America: From Switzerland to Lancaster County (Morgantown, PA: Masthof Press, 2009).
Hostetler, Harvey, “Descendants of Barbara Hochstedler and Christian Stutzman,” Gospel Book Store, Berlin, OH.
Isaacson, Walter, Benjamin Franklin: An American Life (New York: Simon & Schuster, 2003).
Kenny, Kevin, Peaceable Kingdom Lost: The Paxton Boys and the Destruction of William Penn’s Holy Experiment (New York: Oxford University Press, 2009).
Larkin, Jack, The Reshaping of Everyday Life 1790–1840 (New York: Harper Perennial, 1988).
McCullough, David, 1776 (New York: Simon & Schuster, 2005).
McCutcheon, Marc, The Writer’s Guide to Everyday Life in the 1800s (Cincinnati, OH: Writer’s Digest Books, 1993).
Silver, Peter, Our Savage Neighbors: How Indian War Transformed Early America (New York: W. W. Norton, 2008).
Wright, Louis B., The Cultural Life of American Colonies (New York: Dover Publications, 2002).