The Ancient Giants Who Ruled America: The Missing Skeletons and the Great Smithsonian Cover-Up Paperback – December 27, 2013

Dewhurst hit a home run with this book, one of the best I've read in a long time! Really good work! Dewhurst tells you how he became interested (he is very tall), and how he begins his quest to learn more, up until he subscribes to four or five newspaper archives and reads four or five centuries of articles about skeletons and cities of Giants found in North America. It becomes obvious that the first explorers of America encountered many tribes of Giants, and I'm talking 7 to 12 feet tall! The first American colonists encountered them and began finding their bones buried in mounds and cities all over the continent.There was no dispute whatsoever that there were many cities of 10,000 and quite a few cities with 100,000 or more, and these were highly advanced. They were copper miners, and even had forges, annealing, embossing, smelting. They had textiles from Assyria and Babylon and the Phoenicians were sailing to America to buy copper and other goods from them as far back as 10,000 BC. These were Paleolithic geniuses whom the Neolithic "native" Americans either avoided, worshipped or warred with. There were massive cities of red and blond haired giants in unexpected places, and Dewhurst does a good job of showing how the landscape of America changed after the Clovis Event (a massive comet) hit America. Originally the Giants lived alongside Mastadons and Mammoths and they had Museums with Dinosaur bones!Oh, you think this is all hodge podge? You won't after reading HUNDREDS of newspaper articles from early American history! So what happened to all of these bones you ask? Dewhurst shows how the Smithsonian Institute was founded under very sneaky suspicious circumstances. They were the original Men-In-Black who would show up, flash their credentials and then bully the locals into handing over everything, which then gets dumped into the "Memory Hole" or, more likely, incinerated or dumped into the Atlantic ocean. How can Americans feel they have a "Manifest Destiny" if this continent belonged to Giants up to 12 feet tall or even taller... some up to 15 or 25 feet tall? Luckily for the Smithsonian, NAGPRA now allows the "natives" (who clearly originate from many other places BUT NOT HERE) to bury any Giant skeletons found and cover it all up.If I could, I would give Dewhurst 10 stars for this book. If you are interested in the subject, START HERE. You will never look at mythology the same ever again. After reading this, you will understand that the Olympians, Titans etalia were quite real. The next question becomes, where did they come from? But Dewhurst doesn't go there. He assiduously stays on target, only focusing on North America, and you will never see American history as being the same. Read this book and you become an ipso facto expert on the subject!Edit #1: there is one thing that frustrated the hell out of me with this book: Dewhurst constantly got mixed up between the idea of BCE (Before Current Era) and BC (Before Christ) and he occasionally muffs up KYA (Thousand of Years Ago) too. The difference is only 2000 years is all and it makes a HUGE difference if you are trying to gather accurate information. I wasn't surprised to find out it was another Bear and Company book, so I'm not going to solely blame Dewhurst. This gaff is also on his (a) Beta Readers, (b) Literary Agent, and (c) Bear and Company which seems to be putting out a lot of books with similar egregious errors these days.Edit #2: If you read the negative reviews immediately you will see several trends. (a) most of the reviewers expected a comprehensive tell-all book about the entire history of giants in every corner of the world. Apparently they didn't bother to read the title of the book "Giants who Ruled AMERICA". (b) many reviewers want Dewhurst to solve the entire mystery of giants for them and they vigorously complain that he doesn't do this. Which is baffling! He never pretends that the focus of his book is to present the entire gestalt all wrapped up in a big bow! (c) some reviewers want in depth forensic analysis of every detail. Dewhurst never pretends such examination is on the menu; he ONLY presents centuries of mostly small-town newspaper clippings (with some more archaic sightings of explorers like Columbus and Magellan) and lets the reader make up their own mind.If this book actually supplied what the detractors want it would be 10,000 pages long and one can only assume that the level of angst being exhibited is due to the fact that Dewhurst hit the naysayers right where it hurts - in their atrophied brains suffering from the collective aphasia perpetrated by the Smithsonian crowd. Because if Giants existed then you lost some control over the world you thought you knew, right? Accepting the one thing opens Pandora's Box and you now have to consider several other related concepts and that scares you. I feel sorry for them. Don't listen for one second to the Luddites that one-star this book! SHAME ON THEM!!!!

This book is not what I thought it would be.I thought it would just be someone capitalizing on all the internet web pages and articles about Giants, that we first saw some 20 years ago when the internet was still run by a free country.I had read all that stuff and much more long before the History Channel would dare touch it, or even calculated their spin stratigy.I thought others in the house hold might enjoy the book, but I also got the audio version because I'm a truck driver with long drives and I like to hear all the stuff tgey don't want me to hear, even if I already know it.But let me tell you something. This book os a treasure trove of old news papers articles from, mostly the 1800s and early 1900s, when news papers were still owned by many different people, most of them with at least some, integrity.You would be hard pressed to find these articles today, without knowing the date and newspaper name, and even then, they're trying to bury the old articles the way the Smithsonian burried the evidence.Here's the thing, the old news paper articles are written by people whom either, 'assumed' the graves were that of "Indians" (since they were quite old) or by writers trying to lead readers astray, by using the words, "Indian" and "Aboriginals" for every ancient skeleton found, even though the Indians themselves flat out said, "We don't know who built these mounds"Keep that in mind, as the author simply 'quotes' old news paper articles, and is not himself implying they must have been "Indians"Also keep in mind, that the "giants" spoken of, are only 7 to 8 feet tall, (in most cases) as opposed to old fictional TV shows portraying "giants" as 50 feet tall, (perhaps to throw off viewers, so they dismiss the whole notion)Giant was a name for noticeably tall people, as in very "stand out" tall, as in look twice and, "wow!"...though some, (look twice and run) no doubt.Never the less, that being said, the book is not only a treasure trove of old News Paper Articles which some have worked hard to bury, or conceal from you, (along with the bones) but also, old place names, and well, stuff that will make you get your yellow high lighter out, ya dig?"Under the giants" as I said? Don't let the title fool you. Book does not only mention 8 footers, and some even taller, but also quotes 1800s news paper articles speaking of strange "regular sized" folk, whom, were not only ancient, but had superior potery and tools, compared to the current "Indians" of the time, though the race was undetermined, tgey coukd have been someone else, or, the "Indians" had their own "dark age" sending them backward in time, as did Europe, experience a mysterious "dark age" and lost knowledge.I heard someone on TV bad mouth those who hilight or mark books.To him I say, buy your books "new", cheapskate. Or is yours a ploy, to make us read it (all) again and again, instead of finding something noted, easy?The the rest of you I say,Hi-light the hell out of this book, with different colors even, as well as ball point pen stars and check marks, circles, underlines, and question marks.

A must read for people into Giants.

Muito bom. Satisfeito

I have read in diverse places about archaeological discoveries of giant human remains. This book pulls together those found in the USA from late 19th to mid 20th century. But someone could find such reports anywhere in the world, I believe. At some point in the past, 'stone age', humans of between 8 feet and 12 feet tall walked the earth. They were probably the megalith builders, but that's outside this book's scope. Dewhurst does an excellent job of pulling together his material and providing a motive for the cover-ups. It is a little repetitive, but that's because it has to enumerate similar reports.

I read about this book in Fortean Times and expected to receive a book containing some analysis of the many, turn-of-century newspaper reports describing the finding of large-sized human skeletons in Native American burial sites. Instead, what I got was a book of newspaper clippings with literally zero analysis or interpretation of the findings, by the book's authors. So while this would make a good resource book for those who are interested in the subject, it is quite dull reading for someone who isn't involved in ongoing research themselves.

Great collection of articles spanning the mid 1700s up to the mid 1900s, mostly from local newsprint where these finds happened. What I want to know is why are we only learning about this history now? Why has it been suppressed...and make no mistake about this, this clearly has been kept out of the mainstream of North American archeology and history. I've recently read two books by very notable specialists in the field of DNA and the history of mankind...and neither made so much as one single mention of anything to do with these "giants". And this isn't just unique to N. America. Magellan encountered such a race in the remote southern regions of S. America. New Zealand, Sardinia, the list goes on and on!Frankly, the more I read, the less is my trust in many fields of science in this world. IMHO, we're being systematically fed a crafted narrative that has little to do with truth.