Short Bibliography

Two standard biographies are The Three Worlds of Captain John Smith, by Philip L. Barbour and Captain John Smith, by Bradford Smith. 

Edward Wright Haile, Jamestown Narratives. Everything written there through 1617. 

 J. A. Leo Lemay’s Did Pocahontas Save Captain John Smith? is wonderfully readable on Smith’s most famous controversy. Answer: No reason to think she didn’t and plenty to think she did. (See About Smith: Pocahontas)

Edward Wright Haile, John Smith in the Chesapeake, tells us in the preface it attempts to supply the where, when, how, and why of Smith’s routes through the great bay. The Cross Project was inspired by its publication in 2008. (See About Us: Our Books)

Helen C. Rountree, in four books that can be called an epic treatment of a people:

The Powhatan Indians of Virginia. Their traditional culture.

Pocahontas’s People. A comprehensive history.

Powhatan Foreign Relations. 1500 to 1722 interactions with Indians & Europeans.

Pocahontas Powhatan Opechancanough. “Three lives changed by Jamestown.”

Rountree, Clark & Mountford, John Smith’s Chesapeake Voyages, 1607–1609 Another slant. 

David A. Price, Love and Hate in Jamestown, an account of Smith’s administration at the Fort.