Giddyup

[Mark Kohut]

"figured mainaly as messengers" ??
 
Everything connects.
 

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 From: Paul Mackin <mackin.paul at verizon.net>
To: pynchon-l at waste.org 
Sent: Friday, October 5, 2012 11:17 AM
Subject: Re: Giddyup
  
On 10/4/2012 12:31 PM, Paul Mac kin wrote:
> On 10/4/2012 12:22 PM, Paul Mackin wrote:
>> Who knew? John Pynchon was America's first cattle baron and imported Irish cowboys.
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>> http://www.lrgaf.org/articles/irish-cowboys.htm
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> Since it says John Pynchon was a participant in King Philip's War, I looked for his name in the index of Jill Lepore's The Name of of War.  There are six references. Guess I'll read them after lunch.
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OK, w/r/t Jill Lenore's book on the first Indian War (King Philips War), John Pynchon's horseman (indentured servants,  slaves, and freemen, termed cowboys in the other account but not by Jill) figured mainly as messengers, carrying vital news from village to village, doing  reconnaissance, etc. Pynchon himself, along with other leaders, wrote letters back home to England keeping them apprised of this horrendous eight year war in the colonies.   A Pynchon letter also describes the destruction of Springfield, in which his own operation was burned to the ground.  He was in effect ruined and thereby, says Lenore,  subject to loss of identity and social standing in the community. John presumably retained the substantial  land holdings his father William had left him. William, not mentioned by Lepore,  had had to flee the country after his pamphlet was declared heretical.  a  Lepore makes no mention of the still undecoded Pynchon account of the war,
 the one described in the online account.

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