A book printed in London in 1671 connects the origins of America with Tartary. Researchers in the Tartaria movement read passages like this as traces of a lost civilization on the continent. Part 2 opens six old pages and follows their claims through original scans held by the Library of Congress, the Smithsonian, the Internet Archive and the National Park Service.

The episode moves from Ogilby’s account to Lahontan’s letter about six walled cities, then to Josiah Priest’s writing about a Roman fort, giants and Tartars. Lincoln’s unfinished Niagara Falls note and an 1858 newspaper add other voices to the discussion. Each belongs to the record the episode brings together, with the books and documents available to read alongside it.

The discussion also turns to the Smithsonian’s 1894 mound explorations, Cahokia, Newark, the Great Serpent and the mound-builders’ descendants. Stories of giants receive their own attention through newspaper hoaxes, Lovelock Cave and Sarah Winnemucca’s account. The series keeps its approach consistent: we tell the theory the way its researchers tell it, then show the record, and you decide. Here, that means putting the six pages side by side and following how their stories travel.

In this episode

• Ogilby’s America from 1671 and the people who crossed from Asia more than 10,000 years ago
• Lahontan’s 1703 letter describing six walled cities, the maps that repeated it and the lake that kept his name
• Josiah Priest’s 1833 bestseller and its accounts of a Roman fort in Ohio, giants and Tartars in the west
• Lincoln’s unfinished Niagara Falls note from 1848 and its reference to extinct giants
• An 1858 newspaper’s uncertainty about who built the mounds
• The Smithsonian’s 1894 search for a lost race and what its report found instead
• Cahokia, Newark, the Great Serpent and the actual descendants of the mound-builders
• The spread of giant stories through newspaper hoaxes, Lovelock Cave and Sarah Winnemucca’s account

Chapters

• 0:00 The Forgotten Pages
• 1:00 The first Nursery
• 3:22 Six noble cities
• 6:30 A Roman fort and extinct giants
• 9:43 An old dominion
• 11:42 The ghosts of a vanished nation
• 19:35 Stories that travel
• 23:07 Six pages, side by side

Sources

• Ogilby, America, London 1671
• Lahontan, New Voyages, London 1703
• Priest, American Antiquities, Albany 1833
• Lincoln, notes on Niagara Falls, 1848
• Squier and Davis, Ancient Monuments, 1848
• Thomas, Mound Explorations, 1894
• Loud and Harrington, Lovelock Cave, 1929
• Winnemucca, Life Among the Piutes, 1883

Full source list in the pinned comment on YouTube

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