[DiogenesLamp]

First thing I do is to see who is the person who wrote it and where they are from, where they went to school, and who influenced them.

Can't find out anything about Harold D. Woodman. Don't know why I should accept someone as an authority about which I can't find any information. For all I know, "Harold D. Woodman" is BroJoeK, and I would simply be reading the same crap he already posts.

If the guy turns out to be a Boston Liberal arts professor being published in Connecticut, then his credibility gets smaller. It would be like asking Anderson Cooper to give me the straight information on President Trump.

[SoCal Pubbie]

Harold D. Woodman, Professor Emeritus, Purdue University

Author of King Cotton and His Retainers: Financing and Marketing the Cotton Crop of the South, 1800-1925 and King Cotton and His Retainers: Financing and Marketing the Cotton Crop of the South, 1800-1925

[BroJoeK]

DiogenesLamp: "For all I know, "Harold D. Woodman" is BroJoeK, and I would simply be reading the same crap he already posts."

The only thing I can find was a 90 year old Harold D. Woodman in West Lafayette, Indiana, which is just off I-65 Northwest of Indianapolis.
That is right where I spent a very harrowing night two winters ago, ice like glass on I-65, cars & trucks in ditches on both sides, road closed, sat for hours stuck between semis, until dawn they reopened it...
Oh, dear... one of my toughest nights ever...

But no, otherwise I have nothing in common with old Harry.