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I don't recall that, I've always said I thought it was high."
Well, there is one accurate way to find out and that would be to check what you actually did say on that issue. What you said is in the back pages of this website.
"By the way Finegan did minimize Colt's contribution, and so have you over the years."
That may be your opinion, but I have never minmized (or maximized) Colt's contribution. And I have also been well aware over the last thirty years how various members of PV and others viewed what Colt did and what Colt didn't do and it would be an understatment to say it was all over the place (some members thought Colt didn't do much and others thought he routed and designed the entire course because they were aware that so-called Colt notebook had always been in the PV archives despite the fact that only a few people over the years ever saw it and less actually ever spent the time analyzing it against what was actually designed and built at PV. The other problem over the years is no one had bothered to analyze that "blue/Red line" topo as to what the blue and red lines meant, who did them and particularly when). Matter of fact, I believe given the essential "Rosetta Stone" and timelining analysis of that so-called "Blue/Red line" topo, and a topo done before Colt arrived as well as all the rest of the evolutionary facts and instances included in the archives of PV of the design and creation of PV (including Tillinghast's continuous written recollections along the way) as well as those "Remembrances" of Smith and Carr, what Colt did in detail and when and what Crump did in detail and when is now pretty much completely known and known in real detail!
And yes, it is true, that Jim Finegan did make one truly misleading assumption regarding Colt in his history book (that had to do with that so-called "Blue/Red line" topo survey map (which Crump continued to work on for years)). When I finally pointed out to him after his history book was finished and in circulation what that misleading assumption he made was, his only comment was simply: "Oh My God, NOW you tell me!"