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    Who Were the Mysterious Moon-Eyed People of Appalachia?

    Who Were the Mysterious Moon-Eyed People of Appalachia?

    Tales of Madoc’s “Welsh Indians” had captured the imagination of jingoistic colonialists since Elizabethan times, because their purported existence meant that North America had been “claimed” for the English long before Columbus arrived in 1492.