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7. Stengel, “The Diffusionists Have Landed,” 35–48.
8. Diehl, The Olmecs: America’s First Civilization.
9. Science Daily. “Researchers Find Evidence of the Earliest Writing in the New World.”
10. Cooper, Leap of Faith, 211.
11. Ibid., 214.
CHAPTER 2. FLORIDA AND THE FOUNTAIN OF YOUTH
1. Cabeza de Vaca, Spanish Explorers in the Southern United States, 31–32; Bourne, A Narrative of de Soto’s Expedition.
2. Lasater, Spain to England; Reuters, “Copperfield ‘Finds Fountain of Youth.’”
CHAPTER 3. THE MYSTERIES OF THE MISSISSIPPI
MOUND BUILDERS
1. Bourne, Narratives of the Career of Hernando De Soto.
2. Silverberg, The Mound Builders, 259–64.
3. Hamilton, “A Tradition of Giants and Ancient American Warfare,” 6–13.
4. Gauss, We the People, 297.
5. To John C. Breckenridge, Monticello, August 12, quoted in DeConde, This Affair of Louisiana, 183–84.
6. Baker, From Savage to Negro, 26–54.
7. Powell, From Barbarism to Civilization, 109.
8. Mann, 1491, 4.
9. Ibid.
10. Ibid., 9.
11. Ibid.
12. Ibid., 13.
13. Ibid.
14. Hamilton, The Mystery of the Serpent Mound.
15. Lewis and Ordway, The Journals of Captain Meriwether Lewis and Seargeant John Ordway, 40.
16. Lewis and Clark, The Definitive Journals of Lewis & Clark, Vol. 2, 505.
17. Saindon, “Lewis and Clark and the Legend of the ‘Little People,’” 478.
18. Romain, “Serpent Mound Revisited.”
CHAPTER 4. LEWIS AND CLARK AND THE JOURNEY WEST
1. Lewis and Clark, The Definitive Journals of Lewis & Clark, Vol. 9, 233.
2. Ibid., 234.
3. Allen, “Cahokia Mounds Finding Stuns Archaeologists.”
4. Ibid.
5. Moulton, “The Missing Journals of Meriwether Lewis,” 28–39.
CHAPTER 5. PRINCE MADOC, WELSH NATIVES, AND LEGENDS OF THE MANDAN
1. Lewis and Clark, The Lewis and Clark Journals, 241.
2. Lewis and Clark, The Definitive Journals of Lewis and Clark, Vol. 8, xv.
3. Powel, The Historie of Cambria, 166–67.
4. Lewis and Clark, The Lewis and Clark Journals, 442.
5. Donnelly, Atlantis, 115.
6. Catlin, Illustrations of the Manners, Customs, and Condition of the North American Indian, 93.
7. Ibid., 93.
8. Ibid., 259.
9. Donnelly, Atlantis, 111.
10. Ibid., 98.
11. Catlin, Illustrations of the Manners, Customs, and Condition of the American Indian, 182.
CHAPTER 6. VOYAGERS OF THE PACIFIC COAST AND THE KENNEWICK MAN
1. Ambrose, Undaunted Courage, 484; Slaughter, Exploring Lewis and Clark, 153.
2. Lewis and Clark, The Definitive Journals of Lewis and Clark, Vol. 5, 211.
3. Lewis and Clark, The Lewis and Clark Journals, 246.
4. Lewis and Clark, The Definitive Journals of Lewis and Clark, Vol. 5, 328.
5. Chief Joseph of the Niimiipu Nation, Great Speeches by Native Americans, 150.
6. Lewis and Clark, The Definitive Journals of Lewis and Clark, Vol. 5, 328.
7. King, “Kennewick Man’s Bones Provide Window to Past.”
8. Strang, “Kennewick Man’s Secrets Still Mostly Secret.”
9. Ibid.
10. Cremo and Thompson, The Hidden History of the Human Race, 90.
11. Stiger, Worlds Before Our Own.
12. Dubois, “On A Quasi Coin Reported Found in a Boring in Illinois,” 224.
13. Cremo and Thompson, The Hidden History of the Human Race, 802.
14. Peet, Underground!, 320.
CHAPTER 7. GIANTS IN ANCIENT AMERICA
1. Oberlander, “Has the Biblical Goliath Been Found?”
2. Durán, The Aztecs: The History of the Indies of New Spain.
3. Díaz, The Conquest of New Spain, 181.
4. Pigafetta and Ashlin Skelton, Magellan’s Voyage, 46.
5. Vespucci, The First Four Voyages of Amerigo Vespucci, 30.
6. Pohl, Amerigo Vespucci, 85.
7. Keith and Parry, New Iberian World, 162.
8. Cody, An Autobiography of Buffalo Bill, 197.
9. Ibid., 197.
10. O’Farrell, “Diver ‘Vanishes’ in Portal to Maya Underworld.”
CHAPTER 8. THE HERO RETURNS
1. Lewis and Clark, The Definitive Journals of Lewis and Clark, Vol. 8, 134.
2. Fleming, “Stone Secrets of the First Americans.”
CHAPTER 9. FRIENDS IN HIGH PLACES
1. Washington, The Writings of George Washington, vol. 14, 119.
2. Willard, A Sermon Preached in Lancaster, 14–15.
3. Hodgson Brown and Simpson, Web of Debt, 75.
4. Waltzek, Wealth Building Strategies in Energy, Metals and Other Markets, 176.
5. Moulton, “The Missing Journals of Meriwether Lewis,” 28.
6. Ibid., 29.
7. Ibid.
CHAPTER 10. THE MURDER OF MERIWETHER LEWIS
1. Jefferson, The Writings of Thomas Jefferson, Vol. 5, 320.
2. Guice and Buckley, The Mysterious Death of Meriwether Lewis, 32.
3. Chuinard, “How Did Meriwether Lewis Die?,” 1222.
4. Gale, “Was Clark Deceived About Lewis’s Suicide?”
5. Coues, History of the Expedition Under the Command of Captains Lewis and Clark, xliv–xlvi.
6. Ibid., xliii–xlvi.
7. Ibid., xxxix.
8. Ibid., lxi.
9. Ibid., liii.
10. Ibid., lv.
11. Chandler, The Jefferson Conspiracies.
12. Gale, “Aaron Burr, Meriwether Lewis and the Burr-Wilkinson Conspiracy, Part 2.”
13. Gale, “Were Lead Mines the Reason Meriwether Lewis Was Murdered?”
14. Saindon, “Lewis and Clark and the Legend of the ‘Little People,’” 1188.
15. Daniels, The Devil’s Backbone, 186.
16. Ibid., 187.
17. Ibid., 188.
18. Gale and Starrs, The Death of Meriwether Lewis.
AFTERWORD
1. Haraden, “Letter to the Editor,” 3.
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