Skepticism or not, Mr. Stockdale, I feel sorry for you should you not let your children believe in Santa Claus. I have always enjoyed your posts, your thoughts and views, and I admit it "might" be a bit far fetched but I believed the stories my grandmother told me. When it thunders, and children are scared, and since she had traveled by covered wagon, she told us that the thunder was just "a covered wagon going over the clouds". Now, how soothing that is to a child's mind, and I told my children, my grandchildren and now my great grandchildren the same "story". This might not be in the same "category" as a little girl feeding the hungry wild marauding Indians but who is to say that it could not have happened. And for a little tidbit "I have not gone to a movie since the early 70s when Gone With The Wind" re-ran and the only TV that I watch is Basketball ~ both American. Antoinette ~ Tacoma, WA, USA waughtel@oz.net ----- Original Message ----- From: "Roy Stockdill" <roystock@compuserve.com> To: <NEWGEN-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Tuesday, December 12, 2000 12:06 AM Subject: [NEWGEN] Story of Sarah Osborne and Tsi'yuy-gunsini > PLEASE forgive this ancient Brit's scepticism but sweet as it is, this > story of a little girl feeding cake to marauding Indians has about as much > chance of being true as I have of proving myself to be descended from Mary > Queen of Scots! It is obviously just a piece of Wild West mythology of the > "homespun" kind much loved by Hollywood and perpetrated on the gullible as > serious history. Hasn't somebody made a film of it yet? They ought to! > > We had our own myths over here long ago in the Tales of King Arthur and the > Knights of Camelot, and Robin Hood and his Merry Men. They never happened, > either! Isn't it time you folks stopped believing in these dewy-eyed myths > of the pioneers of the Wild West, created by the movie moguls and John > Wayne? Do a bit of serious research and I suspect you will find that the > so-called Wild West was never romantic or heroic, but just plain violent, > ugly, an era in which vicious criminals and murderers slaughtered each > other, along with the innocent, with impunity, and a nightmare for those > living it much of the time. > > I find it disturbing if this kind of rubbish is being peddled on websites > as "history". Unfortunately, some folks will believe it, just as they > believe everything they see in the movies. > > Roy Stockdill > Editor, The Journal of One-Name Studies > The Stockdill Family History Society (Guild of One-Name Studies, FedFHS) > STOCKDILL PREST YELLOW BOLTON WORSNOP > GIBSON MIDGLEY BRACEWELL SHACKLETON BRADLEY MOODY in Yorkshire North & > West Ridings > MEAD YOUNG in Somerset, Wiltshire & Gloucestershire > Web page of the Stockdill Family History Society:- > http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/roystock > Web page of the Guild of One-Name Studies:- http://www.one-name.org > "Never ask a man if he comes from Yorkshire. If he does he will tell you. > If he does not, why humiliate him?" - Canon Sydney Smith (scholar and > humorist 1771-1845) > > > ==== NEWGEN Mailing List ==== > BE SURE TO SHARE WITH THE OTHER LIST MEMBERS ANY SIGNIFICANT > (OR INSIGNIFICANT) FIND YOU HAVE MADE. IT HELPS OTHERS TO PRESS ON > WITH THEIR OWN SEARCH. >