Talk:Samuel Maverick

message: Much of this article sounds like it's copied straight from one or more existing texts. 216.207.71.1 (talk) 19:12, 12 October 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: General Comment

message: I added a "See also" to Samuel Maverick (colonist) (1602–1670), an English colonist in Massachusetts.  Is there a better way to handle this (two guys with the same name, one more famous than the other)? DavidBrahm 15:43, 2 March 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: That's the best way. The other option if they're equally famous (or obscure) would be a disambig page. -LlywelynII (talk) 12:24, 30 September 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: English Colonist

message: I think that it is pretty slack that this page doesn't make any reference to what he is most famous for.   .  The word "Maverick", meaning reckless or outlaw, comes from this person, Samuel Maverick (not the 1602-1670 colonist, but this one).  Please can someone add it? Dyinghappy (talk) 05:54, 4 June 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: [[Maverick]]

message: The lede to the article claims via (poss. inaccurate) source that Maverick simply couldn't be arsed to brand his cattle. Further down the page, there is discussion about the problems this caused his fellow ranchers, his stated objections to it (opposition to animal cruelty,) and a possible ulterior motive (ability to claim anyone else's unbranded cattle.) Any Texan historians know which one is right? The latter sounds far more plausible and accurate, but it's the unsourced one. -LlywelynII (talk) 12:24, 30 September 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Contradiction in article

message: Also, it's more of a style issue, but all of the current listed sources in the article are... well, a single source. Is there really a reason to have a page or two of notes about which particular page each statement comes from? -LlywelynII (talk) 12:28, 30 September 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: I understand you concern, but yes, that is necessary.  At some point, someone (maybe me) will come in and finish the article with information from other sources.  We will need to be able to differentiate between where information came from.  Unless it starts now, later it would be almost impossible to tell. Karanacs (talk) 13:07, 30 September 2008 (UTC)

text: I'm going back through Mary Maverick's memoirs and will make some additions from that source. I don't recall her version of the maverick origin, but I think it was simply that he was given some cattle on Matagorda Island in lieu of a debt, and the family he sent to care for them just neglected the job. But he wasn't much interested in cattle.  It needs clearing up. It wasn't what was important about him, but it's what he's mostly remembered for. I guess the lesson is be careful. You never know how you'll be remembered. Jeltz the Poet (talk) 22:00, 14 November 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Citation

message: I have added the accounts of George Maverick and the distillation of Mr. Mavericks correspondence from Mary Maverick's memoirs. I have left the other cited accounts intact as demonstrating the popularity of speculating on the word and its origins. A more full discussion of the term "maverick" is, I think, more properly its own topic, as it the meaning has evolved over the years and should include various adaptations of meaning, including the recent examples. As I have time, I will go back and see what Mrs. Maverick has to say about his political activities in the Civil War years. Jeltz the Poet (talk) 23:07, 4 January 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Maverick's Cattle

message: In response to a user expressing belief that Maverick did not sign the Declaration, I added a brief explanation that his signature appears on the original, but not on the print published version. See page 11 of the hand-written original. (Jeltz the Poet (talk) 15:22, 21 August 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Signatory to Texas Declaration of Independence