Mystery of the Irish Wilderness: Land and Legend of Father John Joseph Hogan's Lost Irish Colony in the Ozark Wilderness
Leland and Crystal Payton's MYSTERY OF THE IRISH WILDERNESS is a fascinating, deeply-researched, and beautifully illustrated book. I recommend it very highly to everyone interested in Missouri and Ozark region history, in the history of the Catholic church on the American frontier, and in the history of Irish immigrants in 19th-century America. --Kerby Miller author of Emigrants And Exiles: Ireland And The Irish Exodus To North America (1985) and Irish Immigrants In The Land Of Canaan (2003)Even the most unsuspecting pieces of land can be the most saturated in history. Mystery of the Irish Wilderness: Land and Legend of Father John Joseph Hogan's Lost Irish Colony in the Ozark Wilderness takes a look at the region in the southern United States known as the Irish Wilderness where a colony of Irish Potato Famine immigrants once lived, then left. Covering the entire history of the region, and enhanced with full color photographs, Mystery of the Irish Wilderness: Land and Legend of Father John Joseph Hogan's Lost Irish Colony in the Ozark Wilderness is highly library American history collections. --The Midwest Book Review