The Legend of Prince Madoc
and the White Indians

The legend of Prince Madoc is America's oldest and most fascinating tradition. However, this legend has been sadly neglected since the days of General George Rogers Clark.

This book is specifically designed to offer the entire untold story to a new generation. It has been composed from accounts of irrefutable evidence pertaining to the existence of a pre-historic race of white people who lived in permanent settlements in America long before the days of Christopher Columbus. They are believed to have been survivors of a colony that was established by Prince Madoc of Wales in the 12th century.

This colony was referred to in Walam Olum, the chronological history of the Delaware Indians, and The History of Clark County, Indiana. We are told: "That the country north of the Falls of the Ohio and adjacent to the river was inhabited by a strange people many years before the first recorded visit of a white man, there can be no doubt. The relics of a former race are scattered throughout this territory, and the many skeletons found buried along the river banks of the river below Jeffersonville are indisputable evidence that a strange people once flourished here."

Of all the legendary stories told of pre-Columbian visitors to the American continent, the Madoc tradition takes precedence. The Atlantis tradition, twelve thousand years old; the Phoenician tradition, dating from three quarters of a century before the Christian era; the Chinese tradition of the Buddhist priest in the fifth century; the Norse tradition of the tenth century; the Irish tradition of the twelfth century; and the Madoc tradition of Welshmen in America near the close of the twelfth century, all lay claim to being accounts of the first visit of white men to the North American continent.

The difference that significantly separates the traditions is their claims were that America was visited. The Madoc tradition says that a colony of Welshmen emigrated to America in 1170, found their way finally to the Falls of the Ohio, and remained for many years, being routed from this area and almost exterminated in a great battle with "Red Indians."

We believe you'll find in this book additional and convincing proof that Prince Madoc founded the first recorded settlement in America and established in what is now Clark County, Indiana, the longest surviving colony (1170-1837) before widespread immigration centuries later brought other "white" men to this country.

Equally important, I hope you'll find the 'stories within a story' interesting; "The Legend of Brown Dove," "The Spy With a Moneyed Eye," and "Lost Treasures" are fascinating components of the Madoc legend; I think you'll enjoy them.

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