Florida Founder William P. Duval: Frontier Bon Vivant

by James M. Denham

The biography of a well-connected but nearly forgotten American antebellum politician

In Florida Founder William P. DuVal, James M. Denham provides the first full-length biography of the well-connected, but nearly forgotten frontier politician of antebellum America. The scion of a well-to-do Richmond, Virginia, family, William Pope DuVal (1784-1854) migrated to the Kentucky frontier as a youth in 1800. Settling in Bardstown,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 161117466X
• ISBN13: 9781611174663
• Release Date: July 2015
• Publisher: University of South Carolina Press
• Length: 472 Pages
• Weight: 1.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 6.3" x 9.0"