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Periwinkle House on the Mississippi River Romance
A northern officer Virgil Drace and a southern beauty intersect aboard the steamboat Leona in a post Civil War Mississippi setting. Opie Read's tale follows their fateful encounter, Liberty Shottle's reckless schemes, and Drace's hidden mission in the South, with vivid riverboat scenes and social contrasts.
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Virgil Draco
Haman
Opie Read
United States
Ople
Tennessee
Kentucky
Little Rock
Ark
Arkansas Gazette
Cleveland (O.) Leader
Arkansaw Traveler
Mississippi
West
Mississipp
America
Europe
Andrew Jackson
Gayety
Liberty Shottle
Liberty Shuttle
Virgil Drace
Leona
Drace
Shottle
New Orleans
Liberty
Memphis
Chapel Hill University
North Caro
Virgil
Judge Hobbins
Vicksburg Joe
Miss Lucy
Cal Blodgett
Nick Pavin
Mount Zion Campground
Joe
Draco
Red Foxes
Julius Caesar