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 > > Dr. Jon Kukla, Executive Vice-President Red Hill - The Patrick Henry National Memorial 1250 Red Hill Road Brookneal, Virginia 24528 www.redhill.org Phone 434-376-2044 or 800-514-7463 Fax 434-376-2647 - M. Lynn Davis, Office Manager - Karen Gorham, Associate Curator - Edith Poindexter, Curator