See pages 92-93, The Horn Papers.

See part I, chapter 10, "The Mystery of the Horn Papers." With a personalized introduction, this chapter shares the report of the committee chaired by United States Archivist Solon Justus Buck, that investigated The Horn Papers. The report was originally published by Arthur Pierce Middleton and Douglass Adair in The William and Mary Quarterly no. 4 (October 1947): 409-445.

See page 138 for a discussion of The Horn Papers as they relate to the necessity of evaluating historical documents for authenticity. This chapter also looks at the impact of forgeries on history.

See chapter 8, “The Case of the Men Who Weren’t There: Problems of Local Pride.” With a personalized introduction, this chapter shares the report of the committee chaired by United States Archivist Solon Justus Buck, that investigated The Horn Papers. The report was originally published by Arthur Pierce Middleton and Douglass Adair in The William and Mary Quarterly no. 4 (October 1947): 409-445.

See volume 2, pages 994-998.

Based on the report of the committee chaired by Archivist of the United States, Solon Justus Buck, that investigated The Horn Papers. The report was originally published by Arthur Pierce Middleton and Douglass Adair in The William and Mary Quarterly no. 4 (October 1947): 409-445.

See chapters 7 and 8 for a discussion regarding the role of Jacob Horn, the alleged diarist ancestor prominently featured in The Horn Papers. This analysis considers how Jacob was used in the hoax as opposed to the history of the Horn family.

See pages 168-169 for a discussion of The Horn Papers related to weighing evidence in historical investigations.

See chapter 4, pages 114-120, to read excerpted letters written by Howard Louis Leckey Sr. [1892-1951] disputing Horn's claims. Leckey was a local historian and contemporary of Horn.