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Lemay offers the first full analysis of the historiography of the debate over whether or not Pocahontas saved Captain John Smith from execution by her tribe. Examining all of the primary and secondary evidence, he persuasively demonstrates that the incident did in fact occur.

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Lemay has provided the most thorough study to date of the crucial documents concerning Pocahontas’s supposed rescue of John Smith.

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His examination of his sources is quite thorough and illuminates both the time period in which the Smith/Pocahontas episode occurred and the process of nineteenth-century historical debate.

Did Pocahontas Save Captain John Smith

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      Publisher: LUP - University of Georgia Press
      Publication Date: 6/1/2010 12:00:00 AM
      ISBN13: 9780820336282, 978-0820336282
      ISBN10: 0820336289
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      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Lemay offers the first full analysis of the historiography of the debate over whether or not Pocahontas saved Captain John Smith from execution by her tribe. Examining all of the primary and secondary evidence, he persuasively demonstrates that the incident did in fact occur.

      Trade Review

      Lemay has provided the most thorough study to date of the crucial documents concerning Pocahontas’s supposed rescue of John Smith.

      |

      His examination of his sources is quite thorough and illuminates both the time period in which the Smith/Pocahontas episode occurred and the process of nineteenth-century historical debate.

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