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The Delectable Country
First edition
AuthorLeland Baldwin
LanguageEnglish
GenreNovel
PublisherLee Furman, Inc.

Publication date

1939
Publication placeUnited States
Media typePrint (hardback)
Pages715
OCLC1053523

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.

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Other novels that employ events of the Whiskey Rebellion:

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