CANAAN By Donald McCaig Norton. 426 pp. $24.95 The Santee uprising, the end of the Civil War, the struggles of ruined Virginia aristocrats and newly emancipated slaves, the great trail drives, the political maneuvers of Thaddeus Stevens, the Fetterman massacre, Gilded Age dining at Delmonico's, the...

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