Lou and Diana, thanks so much for your further reading suggestions, as well as your comments on Albion's Seed. Having read Fischer's later book, PAUL REVERE, I have found ALBION'S SEED relatively less even in its care to build cases and support claims. Some are well supported and argued, some seemed to be floated on enthusiasm. Overall, I find him appealing and convincing - just less so than in PAUL REVERE. As with Lou, I have found the treatment of borderers confusing in that Fischer sometimes casts their locale narrowly as "appalachia", but sometimes broadly as "backcountry" and cites quite non-appalachian places as Brunswick and Lunenburg counties, Virginia, and Maryland's eastern shore. Also, I don't think he did enough to clarify how borderer culture intermixed with cavalier culture in the backcountry, as must have been a major phenomenon in southside Virginia and piedmont Georgia, two favorite haunts of this research list. Nevertheless, these are fine points of criticism relative to the wealth of context provided in this work. -lpb ________________________________________________________________ GET INTERNET ACCESS FROM JUNO! Juno offers FREE or PREMIUM Internet access for less! Join Juno today! For your FREE software, visit: http://dl.www.juno.com/get/tagj.