User:Ruddyjohn

I am a Brit living in France. I did Fine Art/Art History at Nottingham U and Philosophy (to Part One) at UCL."French Civilization and Literature" sounds grand but it was Mickey Mouse diploma cooked up at the SORBONNE for foreign students during the long Summer break. But it looks good on the CV. (that is, at that time when things looking good on the CV ('Resumé)was important to me) My interests are in The Humanities: History, US History, -especially Slavery and the Civil War - the successive Immigration Waves and their effect on the immediately preceding immigrants, pressure for jobs and housing etc, from the mid 1850s to about 1910. At present I am working on a project concerning the arrival of the MUSTANGS on the Great Plains. My paricular bee-in-the-bonnet is that in all probability this should have been before the 1720s- the accepted chronology - when they show up in East Texas.Think of the reproduction rates of those Spanish horses that escaped, were rustled by Native Americans, or swam ashore from incoming convoys that foundered in storms off Florida, Louisiana, Galveston! etc. Any help at all on this subject, especially references to daybooks,logs, cargo lists and the like would be most welcome.