The Delectable Country

The Delectable Country
Author Leland Baldwin
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 Leland Baldwin (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:

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