tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20136268.post4866420261244854257..comments2024-02-08T23:48:48.397-05:00Comments on <p><big>JOHN BROWN TODAY</big></p><p><i><center>A Biographer's Blog</center></i></p>: The Return of That Loser Pate (Actually Just His Knife)Louis A. DeCaro, Jr. . .http://www.blogger.com/profile/10895195726778019518noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20136268.post-52507298043026881272016-10-05T10:31:54.088-04:002016-10-05T10:31:54.088-04:00Hi Rich--The information about Green in later life... <br />Hi Rich--The information about Green in later life is not published, except where I quoted the source in <i>Freedom Dawn.</i> The source is a letter from a man who knew Green in later years, in South Dakota, and wrote to Oswald Villard in 1907. The man describes Green as a man of "intermittent sobriety" and shows him very unhappy and unsuccessful in later life. JB had the knife in Collinsville, CT, when he met Charles Blair the blacksmith who made the pikes. Brown told him he wanted such a blade mounted on long poles (See Villard, p. 283; Mason report, p. 121). Pate apparently knew about the later but mistakenly thought JB had given the knife to another of his friends not Stearns. Sorry, don't know the specifics of Pate's getting the knife.Louis A. DeCaro, Jr. . .https://www.blogger.com/profile/10895195726778019518noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20136268.post-43272555032485484542016-10-05T08:23:27.225-04:002016-10-05T08:23:27.225-04:00Who doesn't love relics? Thanks for telling th...Who doesn't love relics? Thanks for telling this story. As always I have a few questions. You mentioned Green was a drunk later in life. Where can I find information about his later life? How did the knife transfer from Buford to Pate? And finally what is the source of the statement that the knife was the prototype for the pikes. I always look forward to your stories.Richhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16531841368322565077noreply@blogger.com