The Fabulous History of the Dismal Swamp Company: A Story of George Washington's Times
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ISBN: 0679433457 / Publisher: Knopf, October 1999
Traces the development of the Dismal Swamp Company
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Royster (history, Louisiana State U.) describes the rise and fall of the colonial Dismal Swamp Company, a strange enterprise combining greed and delusion whose advocates proposed draining and developing a vast morass along the Virginia-North Carolina border. His study reveals an 18th century colonial order built on cronyism, conspicuous consumption, and debt of remarkable proportions involving men of the best patriotic pedigrees. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
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