Huzzah for John Smith, My HERO!!!!

Randy Cabell
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From: "Jon Kukla" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Friday, May 11, 2007 4:27 PM
Subject: Re: [VA-HIST] Article on John Smith


> 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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