To go back to the beginning: Mike mentioned he thought that Kino had been as far north as the Salt River, a suggestion you immediately criticized, and when he offered you an excerpt from the History of Arizona and New Mexico, you dismissed it, saying based on what
you read, Kino didn’t go north of the Gila. Sorry but that doesn't hold water with me.
He furthermore showed you an excerpt from Kino’s own diary to show you that there was a lot more going on than meets the eye to which you responded dismissively and added the following insult:
Which is ludicrous to me because I hold neither Bolton or Polzer to be any sort of “final” authority on the Jesuits, a proposition, where Polzer is concerned, I find equal to holding a fox as the final authority on the history of a henhouse. The fox is of course always going to say the henhouse has always been empty.
And as for Bolton, funny that you should hold his “research skills” in high esteem because his colleagues did not. Bolton, in fact, was not even an expert on Jesuit history by any means, his specialty was Spanish-American history- find below a partial critique of him from a biography by
Russell Magnaghi:
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And it is in this context that I brought up Campos, he being a
contemporary of Kino’s. That Campos had gone as far north as the White Mountains which is way north of the Gila no matter how you put it, but Kino? Despite Kino’s being known as a fearless explorer who covered incredible distances, the important thing is, according to you, that there is no
recorded account of him having gone north of the Gila, so therefore he never did.
And as Mike said, if Kino’s diaries is the final word on every single thing he did, why is it then full of ciphers? Why is one of them unaccounted for?
Instead of responding to any of those points or questions, you just took off on a tangent and zeroed on what in your mind was some sort of “mistake” i made, and gloated over it.
Did that juvenile maneuver really add anything to the discussion? I don't think so.
So when you leave the sandbox, perhaps you could respond to those questions or points intelligently, instead of dismissing them when they don’t fit your… “accepted history.”
