773 pages
English language
Published Nov. 19, 1997 by Henry Holt.
Mason & Dixon
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Told from the focal point of one Rev. Wicks Cherrycoke – a clergyman of dubious orthodoxy – who attempts to entertain and divert his extended family on a cold December evening (partly for amusement, and partly to keep his coveted status as a guest in the house). Claiming to have accompanied Mason and Dixon throughout their journeys, Cherrycoke tells a tale intermingling Mason and Dixon's biographies with history, fantasy, legend, speculation, and outright fabrication.
Subjects
- Mason, Charles, -- 1728-1786 -- Fiction
- Dixon, Jeremiah -- Fiction
- Frontier and pioneer life -- Fiction
- British -- United States -- Fiction
- Surveying -- Fiction
- Surveyors -- Fiction
- United States -- History -- Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775 -- Fiction
- Pennsylvania -- Fiction
- Maryland -- Fiction