Andrews, Charles McLean.
Our Earliest Colonial Settlements: Their Diversity of Origin and Later Characteristics
. New York, 1933, Paperback edition: Great Seal Books, 1959, (Chapter v is a good summary of Connecticut’s colonial history.)
Bonfanti, Leo,
Biographies and Legends of the New England Indians
. 4 vols. Wakefield, Mass., 1971. (Each volume has something on Conn, Indian leaders, tribes or battles. It mixes legends and histories and is not chronological or well documented.)
Connecticut State Register and Manual
. 1935. (This tercentenary edition contains many brief but useful histories and summaries.)
Cummins, D. Duane and William Gee White.
The American Frontier
. New York, 1972. (A good high school text which fairly treats all views and is well illustrated.)
DeForest, John W.
History of the Indians of Connecticut: From the Earliest Known to 1850
. Hamden, Conn” 1964. First published, 1851, (This text is still the best, most reliable treatment of the Connecticut Indian.)
Deming, Dorothy.
The Settlement of the Connecticut Towns
. Tercentenary Pamphlet, New Haven, Conn” 1936. (This is just one of the many very useful tercentenary pamphlets and has a good overview of the settlement of the mother towns.)
Hooker, Roland Mather.
The Colonial Trade of Connecticut
. Tercentenary Pamphlet. New Haven, Conn., 1936. (It is a useful overview but lacks detail, It is good for students of most grades.)
Leach, Douglas Edward,
Flintlock and Tomahawk: New England in King Phillip’s War
. Norton, 1966. This is a well documented and readable history.)
Public Records of Connecticut 1636-1725
. 6 vols. (Copies are readily available in libraries and filled with much excellent material for the classroom. Indexed.)
Roth, David M. Connecticut:
A Bicentennial History
. Nashville, 1979. (This is good for high school and the Introduction and Chapters 1 and 2 are useful to the study of frontier.)
Seaberg, Stanley.
The Pioneer vs. the Wilderness: Did the Frontier create the American
? New York, 1966. (A very small book written by a high school teacher which is a fair presentation of both sides of the Turnerian position.)
Taylor, Robert J.
Colonial Connecticut: A History,
Millwood, N.Y., 1979. (A comprehensive history that is part of a series.)
Turner, F. J.
Frontier and Section: Selected Essays of Frederick
Jackson Turner. Englewood Cliffs, N.J., 1961. A useful overview by Ray Billington is found in the Introduction.)