Who was John Dunn Hunter? Was he a white man who had been kidnapped as a child and raised to manhood by the Osage Indians; who wrote a widely acclaimed account of his captivity that made him th wonder of two continents; who self-appointed mission was to save the American Indians from genocide beyond the Mississippi; and who, finally, was murdered by an Indian as he bravely rallied the scattered forces of his “Red and White Republic of Fredonia”? 

Or was he a hoax?