Items related to The Land Beyond the Mountains (PBL Americana, 54-457)
The time is the 1780s. The Revolution has been won, and the new American Confederacy is struggling to find itself.
Even now, the thinly-populated former colonies are looking to expand, westward, into Kentucky and Tennessee. At the center of the opening of these new territories is one of the more fascinating forgotten figures in American history, General James Wilkinson.
The author says, in her foreward: " . . deeply tarnished. There is no doubt he intrigued all his life, ruthlessly, selfishly, without consciuence." Despite this, to the end of his life he was able to retain warm relationships with a number of incorruptible men. He was a pensioner of Spain, and simultaneously a general officer on the American army.
His ultimate goal was to detach the Land Beyond the Mountains from the new nation, and make it his own!
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- PublisherPaperback Library
- Publication date1967
- ISBN 10 0446544574
- ISBN 13 9780446544573
- BindingMass Market Paperback
- Edition number1
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