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Jekyll Island's Early Years: From Prehistory through Reconstruction.(Book review)
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Journal of Southern History
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November 1, 2006
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Jekyll Island's Early Years: From Prehistory through Reconstruction. By June Hall McCash. Wormsloe Foundation Publications. (Athens, Ga., and London: University of Georgia Press, c. 2005. Pp. xvi, 280. $39.95, ISBN 0-8203-2447-7.)
In Jekyll Island's Early Years: From Prehistory through Reconstruction, June Hall McCash explores the history of Jekyll Island from its occupation by its first inhabitants to its takeover by northern capitalists in 1886 and tells the stories of the various nationalities, ethnicities, and personalities that had mixed success there. She aspires to show how "the environment, human conflict, and a desire for refuge--have shaped Jekyll's history" and ...
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