I regret that Starbuck had half of his face wasted and that his young servant was killed. I assume that Lucifer was the child of Starbuck’s nemesis and the half brother of his best friend. I do not regret a discontinuation of the gore of the Cival War. Enough has been written about this just as Patrick O’Brian and others have well covered battles of the sea. You asked your correspondants not to suggest book topics, but at least hear this one. In DeVoto’s “Across the Wide Missouri” he references Lewis Hector Garrard, “Wah-To-Yah and the Taos Trail” in his bibliography. DeVoto says that this young man had one of the great adventures of the “Mountain Man” age. I think you will agree. Denis Wright