Captain John Smith
By Charles Dudley Warner
19 Oct, 2019
Brief Extract: The extant biographies of Smith, and the portions of the history of Virginia that relate to him, all follow his own narrative, and accept his estimate of himself, and are little more than paraphrases of his story as told by himself. Bu
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Brief Extract: The extant biographies of Smith, and the portions of the history of Virginia that relate to him, all follow his own narrative, and accept his estimate of himself, and are little more than paraphrases of his story as told by himself. But within the last twenty years, some new contemporary evidence has come to light, and special scholars have expended much critical research upon different portions of his career. Less