Interesting.  Dowdy was a great friend of my father's, but I never knew he wrote anything about that period. I'll have to check it out.
-Melnda Skinner

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> On Apr 13, 2015, at 9:39 AM, Craig Kilby <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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> Clifford Dowdey’s old standby *The Golden Age: A Climate for Greatness 1732-1775* gives considerable treatment to these topics, particularly the pistole controversy.
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>> On Apr 12, 2015, at 10:48 AM, Bill Crews <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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>> Currently reading JR Alden's Dinwiddie: Servant of the Crown. I'm intrigued by the pistole controversy and its longer term impact on settlement in western Virginia, operations of the Ohio company, etc. Can anyone recommend a good source for this?
>> Bill
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