Groundless [electronic resource] : 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 : history, context, culture
Subjects:	Frontier and pioneer life > United States. Rumor > Social aspects > United States > History. Legends > United States. Hoaxes > United States. United States > History > Errors, inventions, etc.
Online Access:	EBSCO eBooks: 2015 (EBSCO) eBook Academic Collection (EBSCOhost) – North America: 2015 (EBSCO) eBook High School Collection (EBSCOhost): 2015 (EBSCO) eBook Public Library Collection (EBSCOhost) – North America: 2015 (EBSCO)
Variant Title:	Groundless: Rumors, Legends, and Hoaxes on the Early American Frontier
Format:	Electronic eBook

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

Authors: Dowd, Gregory Evans, 1956-
Published: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2015

Physical Description: ix, 391 pages ; 24 cm.

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