Freemasonry on the Frontier By John Wade

A collection of seventeen original papers by leading Masonic researchers and academics tracking the evolution of Freemasonry in America from the original thirteen colonies to the Pacific Coast. Contributors include Ric Berman, Brent Morris, Mike Kearsley, Barry Hoffbrand, John Wade, Adam Kendall, and Andreas Önnerfors, members of Quatuor Coronati Lodge, and a number of outstanding American scholars: Ben Williams, Hilary Anderson Stelling, Hans Schwartz ,John Kyle Day, Jeffrey Croteau, Andrew Hammer, Daniel Gardiner, and Walter H. Hunt, as well as two brilliant European writers, Peter Lanchidi from Israel and Leif Endre Grutle from Norway.

Papers Include

The American Frontier: The Foundations of American Freemasonry: Americas First Provincial Grand Masters

Ric Berman

A Jewish-Christian Debate on Sectarian Freemasonry in the American Press

Peter Lanchidi

The Higher Degrees in the United States, 1730-1830

S.Brent Morris

Rob Morris and the Conservator Movement on the Development of Masonic Ritual in the United States

Mike Kearsley

Henry Harford: Last Proprietor and Provincial Grand Master of Maryland

Barry Hoffbrand

Der Triangel: A German Masonic Newspaper in the USA

Andreas Önnerfors

Freemasonry in Pike's Peak Country

Ben Williams

Rare Jewels: Early New York City Mark Medals

Hilary Anderson Stelling

From Centre to Circumference, From Base to Cope: Founding the Most Worshipful Prince Hall Grand Lodge of Arkansas, F. & A. M., c.1862 1902

John Kyle

Neo-Colonial Expansionism of Massachusetts Masonry

Walter H. Hunt

Scandinavian Immigrants and New World Freemasonry

Leif Endre Grutle

Freemasonry in Revolutionary Boston

Hans Schwartz

Scottish-Transatlantic Masonic Medical Links in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries

John S. Wade

Joseph Cerneau vs. Emanuel De La Motta:

Understanding the Founding of the Scottish Rites Northern Masonic Jurisdiction in 1813 through the Lens of Religious Intolerance

Jeffrey Croteau

The Scandals and Secret Rites of Benjamin Hyam, California's 3rd Grand Master

Adam Kendall

Frontiers and the Future: The Grand Lodge of Washington, DC

Andrew Hammer

Death and Masonic Funerals in Territorial Idaho and Montana

Daniel Gardiner

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