First, thank you, Ishmael for this link.

Secondly, I really dislike these media heavy commercial sites that beat up my computer and slow it for writing, posting and publishing. It’s a shame that I won’t search this site as it bogs down my low-powered unit.

The concept of indigenous whites in North American is exciting and currently taboo in most quarters. It used to be the province of strict diffusionist thinkers who believed that every one of man’s invention, even the most simple, was unique and was propagated by cultural contact. This obviously meant that ancient Egyptians were advising the Mayans, etc. I for one, think that if you put two stones in front of a primitive man, that he’s likely to come up with a similar use for them as some other hunter faced with similar needs on the other side of the globe.

Tara does point out in this article that a battle with fur trappers may account for one such legend. Of course there is a lot of speculation about Vikings going as deep into the continent as the Detroit area.

For those interested in one well done fictional treatment that took plausible turns whenever possible, check out James Alexander Thom’s Children of First Man, about how a Welsh Prince fled medieval Britain and established a colony on the Gulf Coast, which migrated up the Alabama watershed and then down the Cumberland watershed to the Missouri to become the Mandan, who, according to painter George Gatlin, claimed to have had white ancestors.