The son of Pocahontas, Thomas Rolfe lived a somewhat turbulent life caught between two worlds, perhaps beginning with conception. While records state that Thomas Rolfe's parents were Pocahontas and ...

finds a fresh illustration in the famous story of POCAHONTAS saving the life of Capt. JOHN SMITH, which for two hundred years has excited the wonder and admiration of the world. View Full Article ...

This engraving of Pocahontas is the only known life ... most notably her friend, Capt. John Smith, whose veracity of detail and recollection is, to put it mildly, questionable.

John Smith claimed Pocahontas saved him from execution when she was just 11 or 12 years old. Whether the story happened the way Smith tells it—or even at all—is up for debate, a 2017 ...

A retelling of the story more accurately depicts what might have happened between John Smith and Matoaka, which was Pocahontas's given ... accidentally by Smith’s friend, Smith is captured ...

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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 ...