I have heard that years ago in the Oklahoma mountains south of Heavener, on the Kiamichi River, a farmer was cleaning out a water hole in the river and found...
Ratdogs,<br><br> I feel pretty confident that this story is baseless. If there was anything at all to it Gloria Farley would have given it big play in her...
Hi Bob,<br><br>This is the first I have heard of a Viking ship find in OK.<br><br>I would like to talk about Viking evidence in Ok. When I visited with Gloria...
I realize that this forum is supposed to be to discuss runestones, and I apologize for getting off topic, but I have looked in several other forums trying to...
No need to apologize Ratdogs, as I feel sure that anything concerning the finding of a viking vessel in North America would be of interest to the entire club. ...
No. And when I tried to find AVM, in as old a dictionary as I could find(1640) of abbreviations, it was not there.<br><br>But here is my translation of the ...
While technically the category it runestones, it is quite open to anything that can relate to them in a broad sense, including collateral finds, history, ...
I have gone through some of the old inscriptions on runestones, and while I have not found specifically an AVM, I have found that ave maria was often ...
Well I just returned from a visit to Manitoba. When I was there I had a chance to visit a number of sites along LaVerendrye's route to visit the Mandans in ...
Now there are no reports of the Hudson's Bay Company trading there, so who did they trade with? Other tribes to the North, Independent traders? And for how ...
And there's more to come, you just don't know how much gravel dust I ate that day, but looking at the pictures it seems worth while. At one point I was driving...
Note: I am currently on vacation and will be passing through N Dakota on the way home - picked up a copy of a Holand book which has reference to a possible...
Good luck on your search for this runestone. I looked for it a couple of years ago. No luck. I have not even been able to find any picture or even the text...
I checked locally at Stanton and at the County Historical society and neither had any recond of the stone. It was suggested I check in Bismark at the Heritage ...
it would be hard to show a relationship between the Norse and the Mandans, but an interesting line of research..<br><br>True except for the blond hair and blue...
I too have heard that some Mandans have light hair and eyes but that really doesn't prove anything in our context. French traders were in the area as early as...
This is exactly correct, just to clarify though, the first official visitor on record to the Mandans did find that a number of the people were fair haired and...
Great info Roger! The French Colonial Gov't had a lot of problems with the "coureur de bois" and their unlicensed and illegal trade with Indians. They, of...
As something of a side note, the curator at the county museum I mentioned this to said that she thought the Mandans were 'prettier' than the Sioux tribes....
I totally agree that the unlicensed traders were trading much earleir. I have a gook friend who is a curator of a Museum in Southern Manitoba who maintains it ...
Re: Catlin painted a number of Lakota Sioux that were fair skinned and blue eyed, some with Nordic facial features. <br><br>I dont't know about the blue eyes,...
Did anyone take a look at the information I posted at: www.cadvision.com/dwelling/roseau.html<br><br>About a rune stone found at Roseau Minnesota, I would be...
I just this morning came across a book in my son's wonderful library, COLLECTIONS OF THE STATE HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF WISCONSIN Vol. XVI, published in 1902. ...
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