Oh My God. There is so much in this. You must have had a fantastic time researching all this family history or maybe you inherited some research and verified and augmented it. That very uncharacteristic John Wayne film in which he never quite convinced us he's the Good Guy 'The Searchers' has that theme,kidnapped children who grew up to enjoy being Injuns. I've read that Wayne didn't want to do that movie but his friend John Ford made him because he could. It's more interesting than most Westerns. See,by today's standards WE,US BRITS were THE GOOD GUYS. We set a Boundary and told the Native People,no further,we recognise it's your land. Our King George III "Farmer George" didn't approve of the land take over but all through human history such arbitrary borders never work in reality. It's tricky for me here because from one point of view I have to ideologically condemn your ancestor but people have to do this,expand,explore,- go forth,risk,offend as human beings we can't just sit in a tidy box all our lives. Well,with all your amazing links to the earliest times in USA you ARE Mr America - Mr Zoll.🇺🇲 I hope this is the correct flag!
Jane, thanks so much for the kind words and detailed response. I will be addressing this more fully in my post on Sunday, but I do SO appreciate your European perspective! And I do want to watch that movie~! In truth growing up we knew nothing about Jacob Miller or his relatives. But we always knew which side the “good guys” were on when we played Cowboys and Indians! And it wasn’t the Indians (or their buddies the Brits).
Enlightening. Thank you
Thanks so much for reading and commenting Peggy~!
Oh My God. There is so much in this. You must have had a fantastic time researching all this family history or maybe you inherited some research and verified and augmented it. That very uncharacteristic John Wayne film in which he never quite convinced us he's the Good Guy 'The Searchers' has that theme,kidnapped children who grew up to enjoy being Injuns. I've read that Wayne didn't want to do that movie but his friend John Ford made him because he could. It's more interesting than most Westerns. See,by today's standards WE,US BRITS were THE GOOD GUYS. We set a Boundary and told the Native People,no further,we recognise it's your land. Our King George III "Farmer George" didn't approve of the land take over but all through human history such arbitrary borders never work in reality. It's tricky for me here because from one point of view I have to ideologically condemn your ancestor but people have to do this,expand,explore,- go forth,risk,offend as human beings we can't just sit in a tidy box all our lives. Well,with all your amazing links to the earliest times in USA you ARE Mr America - Mr Zoll.🇺🇲 I hope this is the correct flag!
Jane, thanks so much for the kind words and detailed response. I will be addressing this more fully in my post on Sunday, but I do SO appreciate your European perspective! And I do want to watch that movie~! In truth growing up we knew nothing about Jacob Miller or his relatives. But we always knew which side the “good guys” were on when we played Cowboys and Indians! And it wasn’t the Indians (or their buddies the Brits).
That was some interesting history. Things were tough and deadly back in those days.
Thanks Paul. Yes it was a rough world on the frontier.