Mystery of the Irish Wilderness book trailer

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Here is a fresh inquiry into the fate of pioneer priest John Hogans colony of immigrant Irish that mysteriously vanished during the Civil War. In the year or two before the war unloosed renegades and military irregulars over the hills of the Ozarks, a foresighted young Irish priest guided the settlement of young Irish families in the hills and along the streams of Oregon, Ripley, Shannon and Carter counties. By the end of the War, most of the Irish settlers were gone. What happened to the colony? Where did the settlers go? The story has become mythic in the hills of southeastern Missouri. The name Irish Wilderness now denotes a 16,500 acre unit of the National Wilderness system.

Illustrated with color maps and photographs of the still-wild Ozark landscape where the legendary settlement briefly thrived, MYSTERY OF THE IRISH WILDERNESS brings new insight into the legend and the land in which it played out. The Paytons have discovered information on the possible fate of the vanished Irish colonists; they follow the history of the land from Hogan's first exploratory trips before the Civil War to its inclusion in the national wilderness system in 1984 and its use today.

Category:

Education

Tags:

• Irish-American
• history
• Irish
• American
• Catholic
• ozarks
• missouri
• Ozarks
• immigration
• Ireland
• Civil
• War
• potato
• famine

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This book received a very favorable review in "Catholic Historical Review." The Paytons uncovered Fr Hogan's own diaries and notes in the diocesan archives. The review calls the book "beautifully adorned with color pictures".