Bibliography 1

BOOKS THAT I HAVE

MADOC - The Legend of the Welsh Discovery of America - Gwyn A. Williams - Eyre Methuen 1979 Professor Gwyn Alf Williams claimed to have met a few full-blooded Mandans or Mandan speakers who survive on the Fort Berthold reservation in North Dakota, although their ceremonial grounds have been lost under Garrison reservoir. However, he was not convinced that they are of Welsh descent and his book is disappointingly inconclusive on the whole subject. This is the first book I read which kindled my interest.
Madoc and the Discovery of America - Richard Deacon - Frederick Muller 1967 A comprehensive book although some of the evidence is highly suspect and not easily verified, particularly the "Black Book of the Admiralty" and the "Lundy Stone".

North American Indians - George Catlin - Edited by Peter Matthiessen - Penguin 1989 One of Catlin's paintings vividly illustrates the Mandan 'bullboat' that strongly resembles the Welsh coracle, and several of them feature round earth lodges. George Catlin remarked on the fairness of the skin and hair of some of the Mandans. I am not aware of any of his paintings clearly illustrating this, but many of them were lost when stored for many years in the basement of a warehouse where damp and vermin took their toll.
The Forgotten People - Tony Williams - Gomer Press 1997 Mr Williams also met with people who claimed to be full or part Mandan and is convinced that they are of Welsh descent. He was shown a scroll 25 feet long, painted by White Rabbit, the last of the Mandans' Scattercorn Priests, in 1910. The scroll shows 33 generations of White Rabbit’s ancestors, back to the tribe’s foundation in the days of the 'Lone Man' (Madoc). If you count back 33 generations in the British Royal Family from 1910, you come to Henry II, who was King of England when Madoc set sail for America.
They all discovered America - Charles Michael Boland - Doubleday 1961 I have the 1963 Permabook paperback edition. It is very illuminating on the battle between the 'White Indians' and the Cherokees.
Welsh Walks and Legends - Showell Styles - Granada Publishing 1979 Mr Styles claims Madoc was one of Owain Gwynedd's nineteen sons and describes the quay in Rhos-on-Sea from whence Madoc departed on his first trip. It also has a photograph of the quay, which is now in a private garden and which has a memorial stone on which is carved the following script: 'PRINCE MADOC SAILED FROM HERE ABER-KERRIK-GWYNAN, 1170 AD AND LANDED AT MOBILE, ALABAMA WITH HIS SHIPS GORN GWYNANT AND PEDR SANT'.
Our Welsh Heritage - Dr Islyn Thomas OBE - National Welsh-American Foundation Contains photographs of the quay in Rhos-on-Sea and several very interesting articles on the MADOC legend. Dr Thomas is convinced that there is some truth in the story.
The Brendan Voyage - Tim Severin - Abacus 1998 A description of a voyage in a leather boat from Ireland to North America, which proved that it was feasible that Irish monks could have travelled to North America before the Vikings and long before Columbus.
A History of the Vikings - Gwyn Jones - Oxford 1968 Describes the Vikings' discovery of Labrador and Newfoundland but does not mention any penetration further south or into the interior.
Dolwyddelan Castle Dolbadarn Castle - Cadw 1994 Gives a brief resume of Dolwyddelan Castle, which was built at least 40 years after MADOC's departure for America. It also refers to an earlier fortification - a rectangular tower on a rocky knoll in the valley bottom.
Pre-Columbian America - Donald A. Mackenzie - Gresham Publishing Company 1923 (1996 Senate edition)
North American Indians - Lewis Spence - George G Harrap & Co Ltd 1914 (1996 Senate edition)
The Plains Indians - Colin F Taylor Ph.D - Salamander 1994 (Tiger Books International 1997)
Undaunted Courage, Meriwether Lewis, Thomas Jefferson, and the Opening of the American West - Stephen E. Ambrose - Touchstone 1996 (1997)
The Voyage of Christopher Columbus. Columbus' Own Journal of Discovery - John Cummins - St. Martin's Press 1992