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LAND OF GIANTS: Gargantuan Whites Ruled Midwest, Author States in New Book

Smithsonian Claim Giants Were Indians Debunked by Critic

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By: Dave Rogers

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Land of the Giants
 

Giants???

Seven to nine foot tall blue-eyed, red-haired giants of European ancestry?

In middle America of ancient times?

A new book by a noted author claims a giant prehistoric race of people inhabited the Midwest, their size approximating the Paul Bunyan of legend.

The skeletons are of a race of giant human dating to the time of Christ, he wrote.

Emmy-winning Richard Dewhurst is out with a bestseller that documents findings of giant skeletons in numerous locations across the Midwest, giving additional credence to pioneer stories of the finds in mounds in Bay City.

But Dewhurst levels an explosive claim: The skeletons were of blue-eyed blond white men, a "fact" he says was covered up by the renowned Smithsonian Institution, the premier historical archive in the nation.

"The Smithsonian has been actively suppressing the physical evidence for more than 150 years," Dewhurst's book charges.

In his book, "The Ancient Giants Who Ruled America: The Missing Skeletons and the Great Smithsonian Cover-Up," Dewhurst asserts Smithsonian officials feared offending Native Americans, whose artifacts make up an important part of the body of Americana the institution holds.

Numerous huge skeletons were found in Michigan, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Maryland and Vermont, wrote Dewhurst, but the Smithsonian denies they ever existed.

Famed Western artist George Catlin was also convinced of the giants' European roots, notes another commentator, Thomas Razzeto, qualifying: "Although traditional archaeologists reject outright any European heritage for this mysterious tribe, no definitive Haplogroup X testing has ever been done on any of the surviving tribe members and until scientific blood work is performed, all theories as to their original origins are purely based on superstition, academic bias and ill-founded opinions."

This columnist began writing about giants in the 1993 "Paul Bunyan: How A Terrible Timber Feller Became a Legend." The existence of giants on the prehistoric American landscape was cited in the book as the possible source of Native American legends of huge humans, leading to lumberjack tales of one Paul Bunyan.

Bay City Pioneer William McCormick reported he found giant skeletons in several mounds on the west side of the Saginaw River, one called the Birney Mound since it was on property owned by James G. Birney, two on Linn Street and another in Salzburg on land owned by Dr. Daniel Fitzhugh.

Brawling timber boss Fabian "Saginaw Joe" Fournier, a Bay City resident killed on the Water Street ferry dock in 1875, was used as a model for Paul Bunyan by early author James Stevens. The Bay City link is firmed up by the fact that Stevens, who was from Seattle, spent nearly a year here in 1930 researching his book "The Saginaw Paul Bunyan." That book purports to be the "definitive" work confirming that the legend was based on a real man -- Fournier.

Paul Bunyan became the hero of the American working man through a series of best-selling books, magazine articles, poems, movies -- even an opera. The emergence of this paladin of the worker came when ordinary laboring Americans were under attack by capitalists during the Depression.

Later books exploring these reports were "Ghosts, Crimes and Urban Legends of Bay City, Michigan," and "Bay City Hauntings," all published by Historical Press L.L.C. My latest book, "Mysteries of Skull Island & The Alkali" also gives more documentation about these mysterious skeletons like the ones found in Bay County.

Jason Colavito, an author and editor based in Albany, NY., says in his blog that Dewhurst is all wet, to put it mildly, in his allegation that the giant skeletons were from a race of white people -- not Indians.

Writes Colavito: "Dewhurst believes that Native Americans did not build the prehistoric mounds of America, that Native Americans are conspiring to prevent research into the true builders of these mounds, and that the U.S. government is actively destroying evidence of a lost race of giants.

"Oh, and of course these giants were 'white' and had blue eyes and blond hair."

Colavito's work has focused on exploring the connections between science, pseudoscience, and speculative fiction. His investigations examine the way human beings create and employ the supernatural to alter and understand our reality and our world.

From my perspective, it doesn't matter if the men who once walked the earth in their huge skeletons were whites or Indians. The Dewhurst research only gives additional credence to the McCormick find and the tales of giants told by Indians and lumberjacks.

Long live the legend of Paul Bunyan of Bay City, Michigan!

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Dave Rogers

Dave Rogers is a former editorial writer for the Bay City Times and a widely read,
respected journalist/writer in and around Bay City.
(Contact Dave Via Email at carraroe@aol.com)

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