Will the real John Smith please stand up?

Of course, as I started reading the John Smith 1608 assignment, I expected it to be just like the Disney movie I watched dozens and dozens of times as a little girl. Of course, as I largely expected, it wasn't very much like the animated semi-musical movie. Or should I say, the animated semi-musical movie isn't very much like the actual story. To be quite honest, everything I knew (prior to this reading) about Pocahontas and John Smith came from Disney. I never knew that John Smith and his men traveled far and wide to trade, meet with Native Americans and (largely out of necesity) trade goods and supplies.

A side note, I did, in fact, know that John Smith's men almost starved to death. Disney does include that in the movie.

I was surprised the most by the little violence between the settlers and the Native Americans. Of course there was some fighting, but John Smith didn't seem to encounter too much of it and was able to keep a fair amount of peace with the Native Americans.