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>I was hoping that I might solicit a little help from H-Albion members >with my dissertation on British gentlemen hunters' travel narratives >in the American West from 1865 to 1914. > >There are a few key authors who wrote several accounts about hunting >in the West and I am trying to track down every last shred of >information about them to get a sense of their background and life. >The group consists of the Earl of Dunraven (Windham Thomas Wyndham- >Quin Dunraven), Parker Gillmore, Rose Lambart Price, John Mortimer >Murphy, and Samuel Nugent Townshend. There are very few (or no) >secondaries on this group with the exception of Dunraven, and I was >hoping to see if anyone had any leads (primary or secondary) that I >may have overlooked. There is evidence that the Earls of Dunraven, Thomas Wyndham-Quin Dunraven and/or his father donated the first ravens to the Tower of London, where they are now the reputed guardians of Britain's fate. I have chronicled this at some length in my article "Medievalism, Paganism, and the Tower Ravens" [In: The Pomegranate:The International Journal of Pagan Studies 9.1 (2007): 62-77]. I will send you a copy off-list. Boria Sax http://www.pen.org/MemberProfile.php/prmProfileID/29344
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