Groundless : rumors, legends, and hoaxes on the early American frontier

"Why did Elizabethan adventurers believe that the interior of America hid vast caches of gold? Who started the rumor that British officers purchased revolutionary white women's scalps, packed them by the bale, and shipped them to their superiors? And why are people today still convinced th...

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Main Author: Dowd, Gregory Evans, 1956- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, [2015]
Series:Early America.
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Call Number: E 179 .D685 2015
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