Johnny Smith and Poker-Huntas a deliberate farce. The real Captain Smith, who arrived in present-day Virginia in 1607, was totally unconnected with the "Mayflower", which disembarked at Massachusetts Bay in 1620. No actual romance ever existed between him and Pocahontas, who married John Rolfe. Johnny Smith and Poker-Huntas Johnny Smith and Poker-Huntas is a cartoon in the Merrie Melodies series directed by Tex Avery and written by Rich Hogan, and released by Warner Bros. on October 22, 1938. 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
Life of Joseph Smith from 1831 to 1834 of the mob violence. The historian Fawn Brodie speculated that one of John Johnson's sons, Eli, meant to punish Smith by having him castrated for an intimacy with his sister, Nancy Marinda Johnson, but author Bushman states that hypothesis failed. He feels a more probable motivation is recorded by Symonds Ryder, a participant in the event, who felt Smith was plotting to take property from members of the community and a company of citizens violently warned Smith that they would not accept those actions. As early as 1831, Smith had stated that the City of Zion would be built in