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Screensize: 640 x 480 800 x 600 1024 x 768 1280 x 1024 UserName: Password: Format Mode: Basic  Help  Prompt  Format: Videos: Font Andale Mono Arial Arial Black Book Antiqua Century Gothic Comic Sans MS Courier New Georgia Impact Lucida Console Script MT Bold Stencil Tahoma Times New Roman Trebuchet MS Verdana   Size 1 2 3 4 5 6   Color Black Red Yellow Pink Green Orange Purple Blue Beige Brown Teal Navy Maroon LimeGreen Message Icon:                             Message: Smilies [quote][i]Originally posted by Longrifle[/i] [br]There's lots of knowledgable historians here, so if any of you have studied Lew Wetzel I'd like to hear your opinion of him. http://www.earlyamerica.com/review/spring97/wetzel.html By all counts he was a master woodsman. And from the limited reading I've done it seems he was once considered a frontier hero among many for his unrelenting persecution of Indians; yet, some historians now consider him a murderer - someone who would be guilty of war crimes in this day and age. Is this this fair to Wetzel? Is this objectivity or just politically correct revisionist history? During the frontier era both European settlers and Natives did things that would now be considered atrocities. Do we not have to evaluate a person's place in history using the standards of their time? [/quote]    Upload an Image File From Your PC For Insertion in Your Post    -  HTML is OFF | Forum Code is ON   Check here to include your profile signature.