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[Paul Mackin]

On 10/6/2012 10:16 AM, Bekah wrote:
> Also see Google Books and do a search.   You will get many references to Pynchon - footnotes and all.    Much better than Amazon "look inside" but there are still pages which "are not available."   John Pynchon comes up a goodly number of times, though.
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> http://books.google.com/books?id=Tr-oP5XRaZwC&printsec=frontcover&dq=%22New+England+Outpost:+War+and+Society+in+Colonial+Deerfield%22++by+Richard+I.+Melvoin.&source=bl&ots=n9WPtuNBLb&sig=JNBwx33Mrl52iJSgEiYiN3sKQLM&hl=en&sa=X&ei=nztwUMX7PInS2AXhsYDIDg&ved=0CDAQ6AEwAA
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> Or (if that breaks) -
> http://tinyurl.com/9koypsq

The url works fine.  Google Books is a marvel.  Type in any fairly 
distinctive phrase you remember from a worthwhile book (also the 
author's name helps)  and likely as not Google will find the page it was 
on. Yes, there are missing pages, but otherwise what would Heaven be for.

Thanks, Bekah.

P

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> Bekah
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> On Oct 6, 2012, at 2:49 AM, Paul Mackin <mackin.paul at verizon.net> wrote:
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>> On 10/5/2012 8:35 PM, Bekah wrote:
>>> John Pynchon is mentioned many separate times,  once in pretty good depth,  in "New England Outpost: War and Society in Colonial Deerfield"  by Richard I. Melvoin.
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>>> Editorial Review - Kirkus Reviews
>>> A penetrating look at colonial Deerfield (Mass.) as a microcosm of stresses inherent in colonial New England. The author is Dean of Studies at Deerfield Academy. Melvoin details the settlements of Deerfield by Puritan farmers from Dedham, its ties to the rest of New England, and the successive European wars between England and France that threatened to break those ties. But, most interestingly, behind Melvoin's thesis lurks a strongly revisionist streak that marks a strong break with Frederick Jackson Turner's frontier theory. Turner's frontier was individualistic, democratic, impatient, and free; Melvoin asserts, however, that the Deerfield frontier, particularly in light of its being the site of 30 different Indian attacks in its first 50 years, was more inward-directed, closed, interdependent, and communal. Melvoin also offers some unique perspectives on the relations between colonists and Indians--demonstrating how more than a dozen Indian tribes shared in the balance of power in Deerfield along with French and English colonists. Indians were not averse to economic stimuli, and consequently there was often a cooperative approach between them and the colonists-a far cry from the traditional view of the tomahawk-clutching scalpers that put fear into colonists' hearts. A significant contribution to our understanding of the colonial development of New England.
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>>> On Oct 5, 2012, at 8:17 AM, Paul Mackin <mackin.paul at verizon.net> wrote:
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>>>> 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
>>>>> 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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