Extra Credit Questions

[AussieMick]

No, Roger. But this person was also , like Horne, a journalist, biographer, and historian ... and he also took time to be involved in other occupations.

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This man's mother was born in New York (Brooklyn). Some people have said that she had Iroquois ancestry through her maternal grandmother but there's no proof of this ... I see that the name 'Iroquois' may have meant 'they who smoke'. They were certainly warlike and great fighters.

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There was a contract that he'd be paid the equivalent of a quarter of million USD for this history. But the publishers complained in 1940 that the manuscript ended with the end of the American Civil War.

He offered to write an epilogue of 10,000 words. ( The publishers said that 10,000 words 'cannot repair the omission of 50 years vital history'.)

However, he was rather busy at that time.