Post by Doc Al on May 26, 2010 18:09:27 GMT -5
I'd like to do a little brain-picking that's way off Alamo topics. Having been around this and other Alamo sites, I know the high caliber of the contributors and the wide range of interests, as well as the diligence, with which you all post answers. Here goes.
I'm thinking about doing a general-interest type book on Jack the Ripper, and one of the things that's always fascinated me is that, in investigating the second murder, Scotland Yard questioned "some cowboys," who may have been stranded or who stayed behind after Buffalo Bill's Wild West show had left England a few months before. There's only the one spicky little comment. Black Elk was there, but he says nothing in "Black Elk Speaks" about the murders or about much else concerning his stay. But among the letters to the editor written by Londoners, there occasionally are suggestions that the Ripper murders could have been committed by American Indians at large in the East End. The reasons, of course, was the savagery of the mutilations. I'd like to know if anyone could share info, or point me in a direction, regarding books, articles, etc. dealing with British attitudes toward American Indians, especially attitudes around the year 1888.
I'm thinking about doing a general-interest type book on Jack the Ripper, and one of the things that's always fascinated me is that, in investigating the second murder, Scotland Yard questioned "some cowboys," who may have been stranded or who stayed behind after Buffalo Bill's Wild West show had left England a few months before. There's only the one spicky little comment. Black Elk was there, but he says nothing in "Black Elk Speaks" about the murders or about much else concerning his stay. But among the letters to the editor written by Londoners, there occasionally are suggestions that the Ripper murders could have been committed by American Indians at large in the East End. The reasons, of course, was the savagery of the mutilations. I'd like to know if anyone could share info, or point me in a direction, regarding books, articles, etc. dealing with British attitudes toward American Indians, especially attitudes around the year 1888.
