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3 unusual facts about Johnny Smith and Poker-Huntas


Johnny Smith and Poker-Huntas

No actual romance ever existed between him and Pocahontas, who married John Rolfe.

The real Captain Smith, who arrived in present-day Virginia in 1607, was totally disconnected with the Mayflower, which disembarked at Massachusetts Bay in 1620.

It stars Elmer Fudd's prototype Egghead as Johnny Smith, a caricature of the colonist Captain John Smith, who arrives on the Mayflower to be met by some sarcastic Native Americans as he makes his escape with Poker-Huntas, a caricature of Pocahontas, and makes off to England with her to raise a family.



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