Groundless [electronic resource] : rumors, legends, and hoaxes on the early American frontier / Gregory Evans Dowd.
"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...
Main Author: | Dowd, Gregory Evans, 1956- (Author) |
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Language: | English |
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Baltimore :
Johns Hopkins University Press,
[2015]
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Series: | Early America : history, context, culture
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Variant Title: |
Groundless: Rumors, Legends, and Hoaxes on the Early American Frontier |
Format: | Electronic eBook |