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)