I have posted a couple of items in reply to Nelson's response to my essay at History News Network.
Go to
http://hnn.us/articles/31137.html
and then click on "Comments" (just below the end of Nelson's response). That will take you to a page with an apparatus for sending in comments. Above that will be a couple of links to my replies, one entitled "On the Trail of the Real John Henry" and the other "Principle of Frequent Crap and Rare Truth."
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