Talk:Wyntoon

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Date	Process	Result
April 25, 2011	Peer review	Reviewed
September 22, 2011	Good article nominee	Listed
April 1, 2012	Peer review	Reviewed
A fact from this article appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the "Did you know?" column on March 28, 2011. The text of the entry was: Did you know ... that 26-year-old John F. Kennedy swam in the freezing McCloud River while wintering with William Randolph Hearst at Wyntoon?
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Winnemem Wintu - Winnetou - Wyntoon

German author Karl May (1842–1912) wrote a series of western novels involving a Native American chief named Winnetou ca. 1893. Although immensely popular in his native Germany and in various countries where translated editions of his works were sold, May and his fictional characters are less-well known in the United States. Since the novels predate the construction of Wyntoon by decades, it recently occurred to me that the novels may have influenced the choice of name. Karl May visited the United States only once, in 1908, after his books had made him famous. He never made it to the "Wild West" of which he wrote so much. Like many authors, knowledge of the places in his novels was obtained second hand through research in books and magazines. We may never know for sure, though, if there was a connection in the naming of Wyntoon. — Quicksilver^{T @} 16:38, 14 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Intriguing! Financial adviser Edward Clark may have known about the German-language book by Karl May but his property really was in the area formerly inhabited by the Wintun people so it is likelier that he named it for the indigenous people than for the fictional character. Or perhaps both—the romantic character's positive attributes adding an air of Red nobility. Binksternet (talk) 17:01, 14 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]