Notes
1 John Parker, “Willard Glazier and the Mississippi Headwaters Controversy,” Terrae Incognitae 7 (1975): 53–63; John Parker, “Original Sources and Weighty Authorities: Some Thoughts on Revisionism and the Historiography of Discovery,” Terrae Incognitae 13 (1981), pp. 31–34; and John Parker, “The Columbus Landfall Problem: A Historical Perspective,” Terra Incognitae 15 (1983), pp. 1–28.
2 John Parker, Discovery: Developing Views of the Earth from Ancient Times to the Voyages of Captain Cook (New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1972), p. 3.
3 Parker, Discovery, p. 4.
4 John Parker Obituary, Minneapolis Star Tribune, 19 January 2006.
5 A Book for Jack: Words to, by and about John Parker, Curator of the James Ford Bell Library, University of Minnesota (Minneapolis/St. Paul: Associates of the James Ford Bell Library, 1991), p. 91.
6 Book for Jack, p. 88.