Gesta Septentrionalis

James Lynd and the Unktoka was one of my more quixotic posts.  It was fun to research... and I still hope it encourages any scholars who mi...

This is one of my favorite old maps of North America: Jean-Baptiste Franquelin's "Map of the Mississippi" from 1676-8:   ...

Last year I took the opportunity to look over the papers of one James W. Lynd.  You probably don't recognize the name—he's not among...