Giddyup

[Monte Davis]

I seem to recall from Philbrick that King Philip's War was the highest in
per capita casualties on "our" side of all American (or NW European
Immigrant) wars. 

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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.
>>
>> http://www.lrgaf.org/articles/irish-cowboys.htm
>
> 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.
>
> P
>
>
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.

P