The Delectable Country
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Country | United States |
Language | English |
Genre | Novel |
Publisher | Lee Furman, Inc. |
Publication date | 1939 |
Media type | Print (hardback) |
Pages | 715 |
OCLC | 1053523 |
The Delectable Country is an historical novel by the American writer (1897–1981) set in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
The Whiskey Rebellion is brewing in the 1790s as protagonist David Braddee, aged nineteen, pilots his foster father's keelboat to a difficult landing at the frontier town of Pittsburgh, after a trip up the Mississippi and Ohio Rivers from New Orleans.
See also[]
Other novels that employ events of the Whiskey Rebellion:
- The Whiskey Rebels (2008)
- Wilderness Boy (1955)
- The Latimers (1898)
References[]
- Baldwin, Leland (1939). The Delectable Country. New York: Lee Furman, Inc.
Categories:
- 1939 American novels
- Novels set in Pittsburgh
- Fiction set in the 1790s
- 1930s novel stubs