Talk:Knights of the Golden Horseshoe Expedition

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Any mention of this before 1841 would be extremely interesting. --Wetman 08:28, 2 October 2005 (UTC)

There is plenty of historical documentation that an expedition with Spotswood took place in 1716 and that it went basically where the current version of events says it did. Although there is some debate among historians as to the actual crossing location, most accept Swift Run Gap. By other documentation, we know that Spotswood was the first occupant of the Governor's Palace at Williamsburg, and lived and traveled like royalty himself. The degree to which the facts of the expedition have been distorted, embellished, and romanticized by Caruthers' novel is probably the real question. I'm also curious in that regards.

Did anyone ever wonder why none of those 62 golden horseshoes has ever surfaced? Guess we will have to keep watching for them on e-bay (with the same optimism demonstrated by the folks who keep the landing lights lit each night for Amelia Earhart!). <gr> :::Mark in Historic Triangle of Virginia Vaoverland 08:48, 2 October 2005 (UTC)

of course, it would be even better to find that bottle. (ie Then they went down into the valley below, and on the banks of the river they buried a bottle, inside which they had put a paper declaring that the whole valley belonged to George I, King by the Grace of God of Great Britain, France, Ireland and Virginia.) Vaoverland 07:08, 15 March 2006 (UTC)