We were on the road Friday, so I had very little time to read. I managed just two chapters in Roaming the Mountains with John Parris. The first was “The First Gold Dollars” (pp. 126-128) about the minting of gold coins in North Carolina in the early 1800s. I knew nothing of these events and found the entry mildly interesting. The second entry – “Sir Alexander’s Swindle” (pp. 129-132) – was much better. It was about a Scottish con artists plan to settle 300,000 Jews within the Cherokee Nation in 1730. The plan might have worked, if Sir Alexander’s reputation hadn’t caught up to him.
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