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 Posted: Sat Sep 1st, 2007 01:13 am
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 In "September Dawn" the term Merikats was used to refer to the wagon train group. I must confess I had never heard it before myself. So when I was writing up the review, I looked it up on Google. There is scant reference to it, but there are two links. Surprisingly enough, I was astonished to see my own use of the word in my review as the top reference on Google now! I didn't even know how to spell the word for sure. I thought the Bishop may have been saying "Americats."

If you do a Google search for <Merikats> you will see my review and two other references. You will also be asked if you don't mean "merecats", the cute little animals featured on a Discovery Channel series.

I don't really know if the Merikats were an ethnic group, a religious group or a political group or why they had a special name. Perhaps the reason so little is known about them is that they were almost all killed.