Myths and Mysteries of South Carolina

True Stories Of The Unsolved And Unexplained

von Rachel Haynie

192 Seiten, Taschenbuch

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

Thirteen Mind-Boggling Tales from the Palmetto State In South Carolina, golden mysteries abound In the 1540s, a young Native American boy told Ferdinand de Soto where to find a secret source, but the Spaniards never found it. Do some of the Southeast's most valuable gold deposits still await discovery? And is Confederate gold still buried or hidden in the state? South Carolina airspace was the proving ground for a daring young aviator, Paul Redfern. In 1927, months after Charles Lindbergh crossed the Atlantic, Redfern pioneered the first route to South America, then disappeared forever-into the sea or the jungle? On what beaches did marsh tackies first leave hoofprints? How did these horses from a noble Spanish equestrian bloodline end up here? Were they jettisoned from ships by conquistadors, or were they brought over a century later by settlers? From the pioneering submarine Hunley and its secrets to the atomic bomb that fell on a farm in Mars Bluff in 1958, Myths and Mysteries of South Carolina makes history fun and pulls back the curtain on some of the state's most fascinating and compelling stories.

• Reihe: Globe Pequot
• ISBN: 9780762759941
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 07.12.2010
• Größe: 229 x 152 mm
• Verlag: Globe Pequot Publishing Group Inc