"Monacan" Quotes from Famous Books
... extended along the mountain region as far at least as the James River, as they claim to have lived at the Peaks of Otter,[54] and seem to be identical with the Rickohockan or Rechahecrian of the early Virginia writers, who lived in the mountains beyond the Monacan, and in 1656 ravaged the lowland country as far as the site of Richmond and defeated the English and the Powhatan Indians in a ...![](http://www.freetranslator.org/rquot.gif) — Indian Linguistic Families Of America, North Of Mexico • John Wesley Powell |