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    1. …in reply to @ChristySColeman
      @HistoryGonWrong There are treatments of the settlement in John Stauffer's Black Hearts of Men and Lou DeCaro's Fire from the Midst of You.
  1. …in reply to @wcaleb
    @HistoryGonWrong At risk of tooting my own horn, I've also written about it in two places: (1) a blog post about the selection of the name "Timbucto" and its ambiguous meaning: wcaleb.org/blog/john-brown-timbuctoo
    1. …in reply to @wcaleb
      @HistoryGonWrong And (2) a somewhat revisionist take on John Brown that argues he was not as personally present at the settlement as some historians have argued: tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/0144039X.2011.538197