3 Historians first perceived the Regulation as a political event; other scholars have interpreted it as a social movement. It was both of these things, but also a cultural movement; see Richard M. Brown, The South Carolina Regulators (Cambridge, 1963); Rachel N. Klein, “Ordering the Backcountry: The South Carolina Regulation,” WMQ3 38 (1981), 661-80; Ronald Hoffman et al., eds., An Uncivil War: the Southern Backcountry during the American Revolution (Charlottesville, 1985).
4 Woodmason, Carolina Backcountry, 14, 31, 52; Bridenbaugh, Myths and Realities, 177.
5 Emma Miles, The Spirit of the Mountains (1905, rpt. Knoxville, 1975), 137.