Many early residents of the area around Pocahontas in Cape Girardeau County were German and Austrian immigrants or immigrants from the mid-South. A notable exception was perhaps the best known ...
The tale of Capt. John Smith’s rescue by Pocahontas in December 1607 is based entirely on two references in Smith’s 1624 book, which describes the girl cradling his head and begging her father, ...
Pocahontas is a young princess constantly searching for adventure, and brings her friends along! She finds one of her most unexpected adventures in a stranger, John Smith. On the Disney Magic of ...
2006-10-15 04:00:00 PDT Jamestown, Va.-- If history were fair, I was thinking as I left Jamestown, Va., last month, Pocahontas would be on Mount Rushmore, and so would John Smith. They deserved it.
Daddy, won’t you treat him right. So croons Peggy Lee, and so goes the story. Thrown together on the New World shore, Capt. John Smith is saved from death at the last moment by Chief Powhatan’s ...
When I was in third grade, I recall being introduced to Pocahontas, John Smith and their love story in the English settlement of Jamestown, Va., in the early 1600s. Since most of you have had that ...
Q’Orianka Kilcher says that all she knew about Pocahontas when she signed on to play the Native American princess in “The New World” was what she learned from the 1995 Disney cartoon musical ...