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Review of Richard Dewhurst's "Ancient Giants Who Ruled America" and Its "Pre-Indian Caucasian Culture"

7/22/2014

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I am just a-quiver with excitement. I’ve obtained a copy of Richard J. Dewhurst’s The Ancient Giants Who Ruled America: The Missing Skeletons and the Smithsonian Cover-Up (Inner Traditions, 2014), and am now privy to the “primary sources” documenting a supposed race of oversized “humanoids” who once reigned over our fair continent. You know it’s going to be a quality book because the author opens by giving “giant bro’ love” to the president of the publishing house and assorted other folks, repeating the “giant” pun four times in one paragraph. Plus: the unwieldy title pretty much assures you know what you’re getting into, at least until the search for a lost white race breaks out partway though.
Dewhurst was once, decades ago, an employee of ABC News and the Miami Herald and a writer for documentaries. None of that ancient experience is evident in this wretched, sloppy, miserable book, which takes the form of an anthology of historic documents about the discovery of giant skeletons, interspersed with brief editorial notes.

However, at the outset Dewhurst manages to be about 12% more interesting than your general issue Nephilim/giant book by introducing an epigraph from Abraham Lincoln, who wrote “The eyes of that species of extinct giants, whose bones fill the mounds of America, have gazed on Niagara, as ours do now.” He wrote this line in September 1848 (or, as other sources claim, July 1850—the text is undated) in unpublished notes for a lecture on Niagara Falls, and it closely reflects the mound builder controversy of the time and the more specific claims of the era that the giants of Genesis were identical with the antediluvian builders of the mounds.

Dewhurst excises the context (in fact, he never mentions it or the source for the quotation at all) and instead launches into his preface, in which he explains that he wants to prove giants really existed because he is himself tall. He admits that he gave newspaper accounts of giants “more credence” simply because of his personal height, and he then explains his book’s methodology. Sadly, his methodology was to take references to old newspaper accounts of giants and chase down the original full-length articles in newspaper archives—and not by actually searching back issues or microfilm copies, or by looking for follow-up coverage. Instead, he subscribed to “several online newspaper archive services” and searched by keywords “giant” and “skeleton.” I wish I were making this up.

He compiled the remainder of the book within a one month period by copying and pasting the results of keyword searches of whatever archives happen to have been digitized. (He admits that this helped him find less than 25% of the stories he remembers reading about in fringe books.) He does not quite recognize the remove that still puts him from the actual bones. Yes, he eliminated the creationist or mystery-monger middleman, but the newspaper accounts are not themselves proof that the stories they tell are true, especially with nineteenth century sources, which were prone to exaggeration, fraud, lies, hoaxes, and simple error. He make no move to evaluate any report; he simply accepts them at face value under the idea that anything printed in a newspaper must be true.

The preface having completed, Dewhurst proceeds to re-introduce the book in the Introduction.

In the introduction, Dewhurst describes the book as the “most exciting” intellectual adventure of his life, which strikes me as quite sad since he already admitted that the book was a glorified Lexis-Nexis search, with little to no attempt to evaluate the results critically. Instead, he claims that newspaper reports prove that giants were real, but goes beyond this to deliver a paranoid rant about American history taken straight from fringe history classics. His key points are instantly familiar to anyone who has watched America Unearthed:

  • There were giants, and these people were part of a lost race of mound builders.
  • Ancient Old World peoples made off with most of Michigan’s copper.
  • The Mandan people were European red-heads. (He exaggerates even fringe history’s most extreme claims here!)
  • The “bog mummies” of Florida are European Caucasians that academia is trying to racially reassign to hide the truth.
  • “What my research has revealed is that the Smithsonian has been at the center of a vast cover-up of America’s true history since the 1880s.”

All of these claims have been debunked time and again, but Dewhurst doesn’t even pretend to think critically about them—or, frankly, think at all. His Smithsonian claim is lifted, at times nearly verbatim, from David Childress’s “Archaeological Cover-Up” article from 1993 and more recent fringe books ranting about imaginary cover-ups. Dewhurst cites John Wesley Powell’s 1879 statement to the Secretary of the Smithsonian as proof of a cover-up:
With regard to the mounds so widely scattered between the two oceans, it may also be said that mound-building tribes were known in the early history of discovery of this continent, and that the vestiges of art discovered do not excel in any respect the arts of the Indian tribes known to history. There is, therefore, no reason for us to search for an extra-limital origin through lost tribes for the arts discovered in the mounds of North America.
Dewhurst presents this as a conspirator’s orders to his lackeys but fails to note that it comes in the middle of a lengthy discussion of the evidence that led to what is not a dogma but a conclusion. He also, incidentally, quotes selectively from Powell without indicating (at least in my eBook edition) that the lines are not consecutive. (My excerpt above is unabridged.)

Dewhurst, however, has no truck for any of Powell’s “science” because Dewhurst doesn’t believe in science. He opposes both evolution (but of course) and uniformitarianism, for he believes in degeneracy theory and the “modern school of thought” of catastrophism. (Modern in that it was promoted by Georges Cuvier and Immanuel Velikovsky.) He is particularly incensed by evolutionary charts showing the evolution of human beings from smaller, ape-like ancestors:
We have only to look at a bird and be told that it was once a dinosaur to know how false this paradigm of man’s growth is. Look at the evolution of most animals, and the record says they got smaller over time, not bigger.
Don’t ask me to explain how evolution can simultaneously explain change over time and be completely “wrong-headed,” as Dewhurst asserts. Consistency is for “scientists.” Creationists know that the only time things change is to get smaller, weaker, and worse as creation winds down before the Final Judgment.

Dewhurst further opposes the Bering Strait land bridge theory of the peopling of the Americas, favoring passage by ship. He asserts that the Smithsonian “told us” to believe in the land bridge (an idea Thomas Jefferson supported in the 1700s, before there ever was a Smithsonian!), and he is completely unaware that modern scholars are actively investigating coastal migration routes by boat. He also falsely asserts that the eruption of the Thera volcano (c. 1620 BCE) was responsible for the fall of the Minoans (c. 1400 BCE) and the Exodus of the Jews (c. 1250 BCE, conventionally)—all fringe claims popular in fringe literature. (See, for example, Acts of God by Graham Phillips [1998], republished as Atlantis and the Ten Plagues of Egypt in 2003.)

But this pales before Dewhurst’s attempt to free his claims from the specter of racism in preparation for his eventual search for a lost white race of true Native Americans. He accuses science of being racist for denying white people credit for colonizing prehistoric America! According to Dewhurst’s confused thinking, Victorian scientists were racists (true) and thought little of Native Americans (also true) so therefore they were being racist in accusing the Native Americans of inventing their own cultures because it implied that their low level of development was their own fault! “When you step back for a moment from the pseudo-scientific double-talk, what he [Powell] is saying is this: these are essentially dumb savages with the minds of children.” So to be not-racist, we should blame prehistoric Europeans for… what exactly? It’s very confusing, but apparently we should also call Europeans dumb savages, but with boats.

All of this is prelude to establishing the existence of a conspiracy that Dewhurst believes can be uncovered and thwarted with a careful keyword search of subscription newspaper archives. Why didn’t the all-powerful Smithsonian think of that?!

At this point, the original—if you can call it that—material about runs dry. As we head into chapter 1, we begin reprinting out-of-copyright newspaper reports. If I were a total dick, I’d recopy and paste these reports as an eBook since Dewhurst doesn’t own them and I could undercut his book with a cheap knockoff. But I can’t quite do that because most of the book actually reprints later articles from the 1920s down to the 1990s that are likely still covered by copyright, and there is no indication that he sought or received permission to reprint this material. I imagine the Associated Press would be interested to learn that its September 18, 1963 article on the discovery of a (normal-sized) Native American skeleton in South Dakota was reprinted in its entirety, as was a Syracuse Herald-American article from 1983. I know for a fact that piece is still under copyright.

Seriously: As I worked through the book I was shocked by how much copyrighted material he has, frankly, stolen without any indication that he paid the authors or their publishers to use their work. This is especially hilarious since the copyright page warns me against doing what Dewhurst himself did: “No part of this book may be reproduced or utilized in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or by any information storage and retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publisher.”

There is not a word about permission given the author to reprint, and if any of that were my work and used without payment, I’d sue the guy to Kingdom Come.

I should also note here that throughout the eBook, Antrik Express, the company hired by Inner Traditions to convert the manuscript to electronic format, has done a terrible job distinguishing between words written by Dewhurst and those written by others. I had a hard time telling in places whether material was written by Dewhurst, part of a cited article, or (as we shall see) simply plagiarized by Dewhurst.

But back to the “facts,” such as they are. Dewhurst summarizes uncritically an August 5, 1947 Hot Citizen story first reprinted by David Childress decades ago in Lost Cities of North & Central America that describes a physician’s claims (never proven) to have discovered a cave in Nevada filled with hieroglyphs and 9-foot giant skeletons wearing, and I am not making this up, “prehistoric Zoot-suits.” The AP also ran a brief summary of the Hot Citizen article in 1947, and this was reprinted in Atlantis Rising in 2002. The two articles differ in some key details, with the AP omitting the discoverer of the cave’s outrageous claims that the bodies were 80,000 years old, that the caves were the lost continent of Atlantis, and that “well-preserved” dinosaur mummies were found alongside those of saber-tooth tigers and mastodons, paired off “two by two.” As you might guess, the story was a hoax, and archaeologists immediately criticized the claims as ridiculous and unfounded. The hoaxer never showed the supposed find to anyone.

Dewhurst uses a version of the article that he attributes to the apparently non-existent Nevada News at the exceptionally specific date of “1947,” but which appeared in 2007 in the Russian newspaper Pravda, reprinted from UFO Digest, where it was authored by Mary Alice Bennett. Dewhurst appears to have mistaken Bennett’s summary-discussion of the original report (presumably the Hot Citizen account, with which it shares key details absent from the AP account, likely filtered through Childress’s reprint) as the actual words of the nonexistent newspaper, whose name he apparently took from Bennett’s note that this was “1947 Nevada news”—i.e., news from Nevada. He mistook this for a byline.

Remember, Dewhurst used to work for the Miami Herald.

What other sloppy research is in this book? How much more did he copy and paste from the internet without checking? Even David Childress did better than this. Actually, they both use a similar lie: Remember that photo of “giant” jaw I showed a few weeks ago? It’s reprinted here again—the same photograph!—as proof of giants. Dewhurst also does not understand the difference between jaws and gums.

As for the articles in the book, there is not much to say. Some are interesting, some are boring, some are obvious hoaxes, and some have no seeming relevance to the topic. Without any attempt to evaluate them critically, they are no better and no worse than a random Google search, which, in essence, they are.


In the end, Dewhurst expends most of his (brief) editorial notes arguing with Victorians about whether Native cultures were truly sophisticated. He seems to think that “Science” established a dogma in 1879 and has not waivered since, and thus his righteous anger is misdirected on two fronts: first because he fails to realize that science has moved on since the 1870s and no longer views Native Americans as backward savages, and secondly because he is outraged not on behalf of actual Native Americans but the imaginary Bible giants and European visitors he thinks actually gave rise to them. Don’t believe me? After several paragraphs apparently plagiarized verbatim (including the photos) from portions of several web articles (themselves apparently derived from a single source), he rails (apparently in his own words) against the “effort to clear the historical record of all references to a pre-Indian Caucasian culture in the United States.” Yes, he said it: He wants to reclaim America for white people as the real indigenous Americans and the rightful owners of all they survey.

(To be fair: The plagiarized portions might have been meant as quotations that the eBook design did not make clear, but the lack of acknowledgement anywhere argues against this.)

This book is wretched even by fringe history’s low standards. Dewhurst owes those whose work he is reselling for cash money both an apology and a share of the proceeds.

For the record, the publisher of this mess is Inner Traditions owner
Ehud Sperling, and the editorial employees working on this were Jon Graham, Mindy Branstetter, Jeanie Levitan, Nancy Yeilding, and Cyndi Marcotte. I normally would not give them by name, but this book was such an insult to history and to literary integrity that they deserve special notice.
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EP
7/22/2014 05:16:26 am

It is truly inspiring that Mr. Dewhurst was able to overcome what is clearly a severe mental disability and publish a book all of his own.

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7/22/2014 06:41:20 am

There's no money in writing factual books.

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7/22/2014 10:08:38 am

This comment is less ha-ha funny and more grimly true than one might suspect. I don't mean Mr. Dewhurst, I don't know anything about him beyond this review. But the history of UFO conspiracy lore and culture would barely exist if it weren't for "researchers" and publishers reworking the testimonies of people who clearly have mental health issues, and pushing them as real mythology for fun and profit. I do not believe most people who have paranormal "experiences" have them because of anything wrong with them, it seems a standard part of the human experience (one I'd chalk up to issues of perception, memory, and culture).

But before the internet and desktop publishing, there is a pattern of people with clear mental issues having their material serve as creative resources for UFO writers. The obvious case is Richard Shaver and and Ray Palmer, kicking off the whole thing. Albert Bender didn't exactly seem all that stable, but Gray Barker turned his writings and mystery-mongered the tale of the MIB out of him. Charles Berlitz of course did wonders with "Carlos Allende"/Carl Allen's scribblings (did Berlitz get a piece of the movie deal, I wonder). Even if Paul Bennewitz was made worse by AFOSI, which itself isn't settled given some of the sources, his paranoid delusions became the stuff of "dark side" UFO conspiracy material that survives to the present.

Increasingly, and I guess liberatingly(?), folks can get their "work" out there without the middleman, and the question becomes whether the community picks it up and decides to spotlight it.

Now, if you'll excuse me, I need to read about how Melba Ketchum sequenced the pop-up alien in Stan Romanek's videos and how it ties into the global cone-head conspiracy run from the secret lead-lined chambers under the Smithsonian.

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EP
7/22/2014 10:18:37 am

Based on Jason's review, I doubt that Richard Dewhurst is delusional. He's just what the psychiatrict community used to refer to as a "retard".

A.D.
7/22/2014 07:37:18 am

I was hoping you would review that book.No surprise its the same as any hyperdifussionist book with a hidden agenda to put "whites" here first.You should check jennifer raff's blog on more info on the mound cultures.You could ask her for pdf copies of published papers if you want.

http://violentmetaphors.com/page/8/

http://violentmetaphors.com/2014/05/15/what-an-ancient-paleoindian-girl-tells-us-about-native-american-prehistory/

http://violentmetaphors.com/2014/03/10/problematic-science-journalism-native-american-ancestry-and-the-solutrean-hypothesis/

http://violentmetaphors.com/2014/02/18/the-oldest-north-american-genome-and-what-it-tells-us-about-the-peopling-of-the-americas/

The quote she mentions comes from brien foerster,melba ketchum,and the rest of the giant nephilim clown brigade.

http://violentmetaphors.com/2014/02/07/how-to-tell-if-an-ancient-dna-study-is-legit/

http://violentmetaphors.com/2013/12/02/why-does-the-media-want-you-to-believe-that-we-are-primate-pig-hybrids/

http://violentmetaphors.com/2013/11/20/a-24000-year-old-genome-from-siberia/

Here's one dna test of two individuals from the mounds.She and deorah bolneck chimes in in another post on how a morman organization twisted their words for a documentary to prove "lost tribes" were here in the mounds.Should check that out.There was an article also published in skeptical inquirer.

http://violentmetaphors.com/2013/05/21/the-mystery-of-the-900-year-old-flesh-joined-twins/

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Shane Sullivan
7/22/2014 08:34:27 am

"We have only to look at a bird and be told that it was once a dinosaur to know how false this paradigm of man’s growth is. Look at the evolution of most animals, and the record says they got smaller over time, not bigger."

Well then someone should tell that to Blue Whales, whose ancestors were two-meter land animals who looked like this:

http://www.palaeos.org/images/thumb/f/f1/Pakicetus.JPG/800px-Pakicetus.JPG

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John Moore
7/22/2014 05:32:19 pm

Or to horses which originated in North America as animals about the size of a greyhound.

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RLewis
7/22/2014 08:48:17 am

"things only get smaller over time".
I guess he can still fit into his baby shoes - or perhaps they're a little loose.
It also seems that the Blue Whale must have evolved from an even larger mammal. Surprising we have found no evidence of that.

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An Over-Educated Grunt
7/22/2014 08:52:08 am

Your frustration is really coming through on this one. Might be break time from the woo world for at least a couple days.

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Walt
7/22/2014 08:59:46 am

A couple days? How about leaving the idiocy behind forever? What an utter waste of bits and brain cells, all around.

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Jason Colavito link
7/22/2014 12:06:37 pm

My frustration was less with the material in the book (standard issue fringe crap) than with the publishing standards in the book. It makes me mad because I have to jump through hoops to make sure everything I do is scrupulously legal and that every right's holder is compensated, while people like this get to make money by all but literally stealing other people's work.

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.
7/24/2014 05:46:08 pm

Jason, we see William Randolph Hearst becoming wealthy
at about the same tyme Monsieur Pulitzer had standards. its
often the case that the more things seem to change, they
basically remain the same. Dewhurst is thusly less careful
than Monsieur Marrs? why am i not in shock? i know its now feeling like summer. I know why you are in a funk right now...i
am in a funk but this has a bit to do with today's current events.
i am trying not to bring up plane crashes or our "loosing" Iraq.

"My frustration was less with the material in the book (standard issue fringe crap) than with the publishing standards in the book. It makes me mad because I have to jump through hoops to make sure everything I do is scrupulously legal and that every right's holder is compensated, while people like this get to make money by all but literally stealing other people's work."

EP
7/22/2014 09:22:58 am

I recommend y'all take a look at the Pravda/UFODigest article. It is the most metal thing I've ever read:

"The Detroit Free Press reported in 1884 the discovery in Gartersville, Mississippi of the remains of a giant with waist-length jet-black hair. He was wearing a copper crown. With him in his timber burial vault were his children who wore garments decorated with bone beads. The tomb was covered with large flagstones engraved with inscriptions. In Cayuga, Niagra there is a place called "The Cemetary of the Giants" which was discovered in 1880. Those giants were 9 feet tall and appear to have died violent deaths. Their axes were found with them."

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An Over-Educated Grunt
7/22/2014 09:37:18 am

Are we reading PRAVDA, or the society column for the guy from GWAR's funeral?

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EP
7/22/2014 09:46:27 am

You're saying it like the two are mutually exclusive...

Shane Sullivan
7/22/2014 02:26:43 pm

"Evidence suggests, say archaeologists, that the giant died repelling a raid by the Black River Picts..."

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EP
7/22/2014 03:05:56 pm

Well done, Sir.

expat link
7/23/2014 06:01:29 am

If anyone's interested, I reviewed last Sunday's SyFy trashathon "Aliens on the Moon" on my blog.

http://dorkmission.blogspot.com/2014/07/new-inductees-to-emoluments-of-mars.html

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elene
11/27/2014 04:30:40 pm

Thanks for reviewing this and listing some of the terminology of the author's beliefs. History Channel is running a special on this over and over and I finally googled but couldn't find anything on wikipedia and came to this review. I should have known the basis for this was wacked based on the fact that the History Channel is showing it. I am glad this review was here and that the terminology was listed for me to look it up.

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Brian Regal link
5/19/2015 10:30:12 am

Jason,
Nice deconstruction of this wonderfully potty book. I just received it and after the first few pages pretty much knew what I had. I love books like this. So very terribly, awfully bad. As someone who has extensively used the Smithsonian's archives, particularly the NAA, to write my book on the life of Grover Krantz, I was hoping Dewhurst would have looked there as well. Unfortunately this so-called journalist never thinks to go the primary sources.

I'm thinking of assigning this book the next time I run my History of Pseudoscience class.

Keep up the good work.

Sincerely,
Brian Regal

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IWGJ
8/8/2015 03:07:53 pm

Why would anyone deny archeological fact. People would rather ridicule the messenger than contradict their beliefs; ignoring logic so that they can avoid independent thought that might be controversial.

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the truth 777
4/13/2016 09:22:05 am

I really believe people have become so obsessed with so called science and what bull crap history they are not using common sense its obvious every time somebody presents evidence and archaeological data it is s questioned! When someone mentions conspiracy or things that should be obvious like the governments don't control the countries the bankers do! People will argue you down.. I think its ridiculous for anyone not to know the smithsonian is covering up info they have been digging up pyramids and excavating for centuries who finances this what are they looking for oh yeah its a conspiracy theory... Right. Mighty funny everyone who ever has been respected who pointed out these things mysteriously winds up dead shortly after. natural causes heart attack died in sleep etc yeah ok wake up. GIANTS EXISTED AND STILL EXIST read on ADMIRAL BYRD OR HITLER creating the perfect aryan.

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irishgrl link
1/4/2017 08:07:32 am

I just started to read Dewhurst's book, so I'm not able to determine whether all of the criticisms presented are germane or not...but disapproval of the author's fact gathering or possible lack of proper attribution does not automatically translate into a dismissal of the information uncovered as somehow false, in my opinion. Dewhurst does briefly explain his methods, and, so far as I've seen in the reading I have done, articles are prefaced by date and source. I am not a professional author, so the finer points of citation are not my forte. Still, I have noticed a trend, especially in this age of Internet research, of reproducing information in a less traditional manner. He does present a Bibliography at the end, as well.
I am sorry to see him dismiss evolution as a viable theory of course, but I am equally sorry to see so much venom directed at him for (what I consider to be) plausible evidence that giants existed in America.
It may be a colloquialism, yet it is nevertheless true that where there is smoke there is fire, and belief in so-called "fringe" topics does NOT mean the believer is "mental" or "retarded" as some commenters above claim. Nobody I know would cheerfully subject themselves to the type of derision and heckling obvious here without good reason, and often fringe beliefs become the new mainstream thought.
In other words, agree to disagree with respect.

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Luke Angove
4/21/2020 07:40:39 pm

Attack the messenger but you still have not debunked the message. The newspaper articles clearly state the names of Universities and archaeologist that participated in the digs and are simply stating what they found. The real fraud is the cover up of what they found.So there are hundreds of newspaper articles over a 180 year period that are giving names, dates and locations of their findings but yet they are all lying? Give me a break...

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Brian Regal link
4/22/2020 05:36:03 am

You might consider looking up the history of the Moon Hoax of 1835. They used all real names and real places, and yet it was a total hoax. Just sprinkling in the names of actual people and places doesn't give any validity to a hoax.


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