John Smith, Jamestown has been largely ignored in colonial lore in favor of Massachusetts’ Plymouth Colony. And what has survived is not flattering, especially when compared with the image of ...

Captain John Smith, the leader of the Jamestown colony, heard from the Indians that men wearing European clothes were living on the Carolina mainland west of Roanoke and Croatoan Islands.

With Jamestown slipping behind us, we headed downstream in the wake of Capt. John Smith, the first Englishman to explore the broad waters and many rivers of the Chesapeake Bay. Captain Smith—no ...

Now, how to do that while also sustaining the colony was the great ... Q: What happens to John Smith after he is released and returns to Jamestown? Silverman: John Smith returns from his captivity ...

The Virginia Company of London was desperate to populate its struggling colony in America ... According to Captain John Smith, some finally resorted to cannabilism. One man even killed his ...

Pocahontas is the most myth-encrusted figure in early America, a romantic “princess” who saves John Smith and the struggling Jamestown colony. But this fairy tale, familiar to millions today ...

Captain John Smith periodically visited Wahunsenacawh ... death are considered suspicious by others. Though Jamestown and the Virginia Colony that grew from it had found financial success ...