Leo Lemay is a top-notch scholar. Don't know who made the article's claim
about first in a century, but Phil Barbour's work on Smith - biography and
three volumes of Smith's writings - are relatively recent, too.

Jon Kukla
> Is this on the level, or just humbug?
>
> http://vision.stanford.edu/~birch/pocahontas.html
>
> In this article, the author is described as the FIRST historian in 100
> years, to thoroughly investigate the story of Pocahontas saving John
> Smith.
> Huh?
>
> Can anyone provide a rebuttal on this seemingly stupid assertion? Or, is
> he
> the first to do so?
>
> Anne
>
>
>
>
> Anne Pemberton
> [log in to unmask]
> http://www.erols.com/apembert
> http://www.educationalsynthesis.org
>
>


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