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Google on nearly any topic these days and, provided the choice of keywords is not too specific, the number of ‘hits’ can be essentially infinite. It seems as though information on just about everything is continually expanding. Much of it is redundant or to be less kind, totally useless, but there sure is a lot of it. This data overload also extends to historical topics, but here one finds a dichotomy. Some topics, such as the American Civil War, the Great Depression, etc. have ever-growing bodies of facts to be endlessly sifted and debated. This immense data mine seems due to several factors, intense continuing interest in the historical topics coupled with a rich collection of written and/or oral documentation of these various compelling eras. Many historical areas are much more difficult to study however. The reasons: basically the flip side of the “hot’ topics, fewer records and less intense interest in the subject matter.
Such is the case with the earliest inhabitants of our own county, the Indians, but alas, in this instance even more than other historical topics, the
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