Author: Caruthers, William Alexander, introduction by Curtis Carroll Davis,
Title: The Knights of the Golden Horse-Shoe: a traditionary tale of the Cocked Hat Gentry in the Old Dominion.
Description: Chapel Hill, Univ of N. Carolina Press, (1970). VG PB. Southern Literary Classics Series. Well-constructed and romantic story published in 1845 of one of most glamorous. episodes in the pre-Revolutionary annals of the South and first book of any sort concerning the lt. Governor of the Virginia Colony, Major General Alexander Spotswood (1676-1740) and his horseback expedition in the late summer of 1716 out of the settled Tidewater area up through the tangled forests of the Piedmont, over the Blue Ridge, and down into the huge and silent Valley of Virginia.

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