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Reconfiguring the national myth of Jamestown's failure, Karen Kupperman shows how the settlement's distinctly messy first decade actually represents a period of ferment in which individuals were learning how to make a colony work.

Frontier and pioneer life --- Colonists --- Indians of North America --- American aborigines --- American Indians --- First Nations (North America) --- Indians of the United States --- Indigenous peoples --- Native Americans --- North American Indians --- Settlers (Colonists) --- Persons --- Border life --- Homesteading --- Pioneer life --- Adventure and adventurers --- Manners and customs --- Pioneers --- Culture --- Ethnology --- History --- Jamestown (Va.) --- Virginia --- Great Britain --- Commonwealth of Virginia --- Old Dominion --- Sodruzhestvo Virdzhiniĭ --- Virdzhinii︠a︡ --- Colony and Dominion of Virginia --- Colony of Virginia --- Virginia Colony --- West Virginia --- Northwest Territory --- Kentucky --- Virginia (Reorganized government : 1861-1863) --- James City, Va. --- James Towne, Va. --- Jamestown, Va. --- Relations --- Biography --- 17th century --- Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775 --- Sources