Groundless : rumors, legends, and hoaxes on the early American frontier / Gregory Evans Dowd.

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"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 that white s...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Dowd, Gregory Evans, 1956- (Author)
Language:	English
Published:	Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2015.
Series:	Early America.
Subjects:	United States > History > Errors, inventions, etc. Frontier and pioneer life > United States. Rumor > Social aspects > United States > History. Legends > United States. Hoaxes > United States. HISTORY / United States / General.
Physical Description:	ix, 391 pages ; 24 cm.
Format:	Book

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