THURSDAY THEORY OF RELATEEVEETY - ONE AUBUCHON BRANCH

‘MAVERICK’
“DUTCHMAN’S GOLD”
&
‘COLUMBO’
“PUBLISH OR PERISH”

At some point during the 1870s, Beau Maverick gained a partnership in a basically worthless saloon run by Charlotte Simmons.  One night, a miner calling himself “the Dutchman” enters the bar with a sack of gold chunks.  He is robbed of them by a bandit named Padilla and so Beau stakes him to go back for more, in exchange for a percentage – provided that he and Charlotte go along.

By the end of the adventure, the Dutchman was dead, killed by the Apaches, which seemingly proved the Dutchman’s claim that the gold was cursed.

Now let’s go back in prime time for this particular theory of relateeveety….

The Dutchman had left behind family in the Netherlands, hoping to seek his fortune in the East Indies.  While there, he had his way with at least one of the native maidens.  Eventually that led to a descendant named Urulu who was a tribal chief on the island of Taratupa during WWII.  But that’s a story for another post.

The Dutchman eventually left the East Indies and traveled to America after hearing news of the Gold Rush.  And that’s where he eventually crossed paths with Beau Maverick. 

He also continued his womanizing ways in the wild, wild West, and sired more children.  One of the descendants from such a relationship was Geoffrey Neal.  He grew up to establish his own publishing house, for which he was going to spirit away best-selling author Alan Mallory – until Mallory’s former publisher Riley Greenleaf put an end to that idea.

Dunh dunh DUNN!

BCnU!

O'Bservation - Jacques Aubuchon, who played both roles, was only 37 at the time of the filming of the 'Maverick'.  But he looks older and was probably playing older.  In fact, I think he was referred to as an old man during the bar confrontation.  So he could have come to America through San Francisco by 1849 as a young man and spent nearly thirty years before he met Beau Maverick.