You have already included 10% of the country's 1820 population in this grand corporate cabal conspiracy and still no hard irrefutable proof of any "connexion" to Ward's 1885 Beale Papers.
You have already included 10% of the country's 1820 population in this grand corporate cabal conspiracy and still no hard irrefutable proof of any "connexion" to Ward's 1885 Beale Papers.
Perhaps you should retire from guessing and plucking from thin air, maybe spend the required time investigating things in greater depth and detail for yourself. Sometimes you have to go beyond those general ten-minute internet searchers. 
Plucking from thin air? Guessing?
Look, plain and simple, you are trying to hold some type of meaningful debate on subjects and areas you admittingly know little or nothing about. How can you do that? 
You tell me. And if you think this is all I have for you then you are badly mistaken. "Scoop", if YOU have the info, already... SHOW IT! It just "sounds" like YOU want OUR R & I to "PROVE" YOUR theory...Some will never know, others will, this all being dependent upon their own personal desire to find out. Or, they can spend this same amount of time continuing to attempt to argue points they personally know nothing or very little about. One is a pro-active response, the other is just wasted breath and wasted time with little to no impact either way.
Show the REST of the info YOU have, ALREADY! YOU have 20-30 years of R & I on this..."Parlor entertainment" using a variety of literary devices in the crafting of this otherwise fictional tale....OK....let's run with that. First order of business is in explaining how this author knew about those two sources of wealth from the Texas region when this information wasn't public until the mid/late 1940's, and there can be no mistaking, he clearly knew about them. So, how did he know? Let's explore this.
Well, he could have read the "highly questionable" memoirs some 60 years prior to their being made public? Or, perhaps he actually spoke with someone who held first hand knowledge of those sources of wealth from the Texas region? Or heck, given enough good health he might have actually been a part of those events himself? So what you say, how did he know, because very clearly, he did know.
So in fair debate I think I'll give him the opportunity to justify his constant positioning. I can't wait to find out how he determined that J. B. Ward had the writing/language skills to pen the Beale papers? I'm also interested in discovering why J. B. Ward would cover the expense of producing and advertising a dime novel for parlor entertainment for such a small market that it could hardly offer him a profit, if any at all? Things like that. But first I want to know how his author in 1885 knew about the same sources of wealth described in a different publication some 60 years later? I mean if he can actually establish these things, as he claims he can, then I guess I'd be wrong as he also claims and I'd have no reason to continue.
DID he...?Well, I've been trying to do just that but for one individual who keeps trying to prevent it.
NO MO SNOW! NO MO SNOW! NO MO SNOW!Franklin, if to this day you actually still believe that there is any chance whatsoever that a party of 30 adventurers went out west and discovered and processed a huge amount of gold and silver, well, hold tight because in just a few months Santa will be coming again.
Well maybe Ward was sipping a broth made from old bullion cubes while in Grandfather Risque's library, saw a copy of the Adams-Onis Treaty. and decided to incorporate the signing and ratification dates into his tale.
No forged Lafitte memoirs required. 
Well maybe Ward was sipping a broth made from old bullion cubes while in Grandfather Risque's library, saw a copy of the Adams-Onis Treaty. and decided to incorporate the signing and ratification dates into his tale.
