The Fabulous History of the Dismal Swamp Company: A Story of George Washington's Times by Charles Royster

The Fabulous History of the Dismal Swamp Company: A Story of George Washington's Times

Charles Royster

640 pages • first pub 1999 (view editions)

nonfiction history science challenging informative slow-paced
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From historian Charles Royster--winner of the Francis Parkman, Bancroft, and Lincoln prizes--comes the history of one of eighteenth-century America's most fantastic land speculation deals: William Byrd's scheme to develop 900 square miles of swamp...

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