For any one who is researching their family name of "Crawford and Rosebrook out of the White Mountains of New Hampshire and Vermont.
I have read this book several times and have learned a lot from it. I still continue to read it.
It took a considerable amount of determinaton from both of these families. They had the forsight to see the future and built on that.
Thorough good times and bad, they perservered.

So you like to hike and you like history but you don't know where to turn. Then look no further, there is a book that has both of that. This book will keep you in suspence and wanting you to read more of it.So know you have a book to read and you didn't even know it.

THIS BOOK WAS REALLY ABOUT A GUY WHO JUST WANTED TO FIND A TRAIL TO GET THROUGH THE WHITE MOUNTAINS SO OTHER VISITER OF THAT TIME COULD GET THROUGH. I THOUGHT IT WAS A GOOD BOOK FOR HISTORIANS WHO LIKE THE MOUNTAINS AND THE OUTDOORS. IT WILL WANT TO KEEP YOU READING TO SEE WHAT HAPPENS NEXT TO THE MAN. VERY STIMULATING AND KEEPS YOU ON THE EDGE OF YOUR SEAT.

This is a very good book and also an excellent source for a research paper. I am a senior history major, and I found it to be very informative as well as entertaining.

Recently transplanted to Vermont, I wanted to know more about the man whose namesake is lent to everything from tourist motels to air guard squadrons to think-tanks. Jellison's narrative paints a balanced portrait of a man whose legacy among latter-day Yankees approaches sainthood. This book tells the complete story (with due reverence where applicable) while resisting the urge to canonize. Jellison provides ample historical context to help armchair historians understand the motives and context behind the events. Very readable...a scholarly work unburdened by tangential footnotes and obscure allusions. Includes an index, a map, and a chapter-by-chapter bibliography.

This book takes place during the outset of the American Revolution. The main character is a young boy in his mid to late teens who is caught up in the spirit of the Revoultion and wants to join the rebels but his father, who is a simple farmer just getting by, does not want his son involved. Of course the son disobeys his father and joins Ethan Allen's group of rebels in time to be in on the capture of Fort Ticondiroga by the rebels. Benedict Arnold appears for a while and the author uses this to show how he was a hero before he turned traitor. The young boy aged by the reality of the conflict starts to see his father's point of view. This book is a remarkable and accurate portrait of an average life in America at the outbreak of one of the most important wars in all human history. The author educates the reader on the history while entertaining. The values and painful lessons learned by the main character are so well presented that it is impossible for any young boy not to have his own character shaped by the book, and for the better. An excellent book entertains educates and serves as a guide for any boy coming of age in America. This book will make you patriotic even if you were not before. I read this book in the library when I was about 12-14 and I remember it vividly, which is a credit to how good a book this is. Now in my early thirties, after reading many other books, this one stands out in my mind as sharply as Huck Finn. Get this if you can find it. I was saddened to see that it was out of print.

This book is wonderful and sadly out of print. It takes place in the midst of the early days of th Revolutionary War. It is about a farmer's son who is swept up in the cause of the rebels and his father's desire to keep him out of the conflict. Of course the son joins the Freedom fighters and he joins the group of rebels under the leadership of Ethan Allen. Benedict Arnold also makes an appearance before he becomes a traitor. The climax of the novel revolves around the capture of Fort Ticondiroga by the rebels. If you find this book, buy it. It is an excellent book for an early teen boy who is coming of age and learning what it means to be a man. The main character experiences war first hand and he starts to see his father's reasoning and the very real and very painful part of war that makes it not so glorious, but ultimately necessary at times. This novel is full of little details about life of the common folk at the outbreak of the War for Independence. It is as educational in terms of history as it is entertaining. And for any young American boy coming of age the book is as formative of good character and virtue as any novel can be. I read when I was around 12-14 sometime around then and I loved it. An excellent book in every aspect, very engrossing and hard to put down. I'm now in my early thirties and I still remember the story of this book although I cannot remember the names. The fact that I remember so much this book is a credit to the author. I read a lot of books, this one made a very deep impression. Too bad its out of print.

There are many remarkable men, and women, who have passed into history with little lasting note of the life they lived, some of them, because of a lack of source material, but some for inexplicable reasons. Ethan Allen Hitchcock is one of these persons. This book reviews the life of one of the greatest military thinkers America has developed. It contains the edited near daily diaries and correspondence of Major-General Ethan Allen Hitchcock, an American hero.

The book begins with the early American history of New England, and proceeds through the personal history of this most remarkable man. General Hitchcock entered West Point Military Academy, in 1814, at the age of 16 years. The grandson of General Ethan Allen the American Revolution war hero, Hitchcock, begins his search for the true meaning of life, God, and the American army with his first diary of 1818.

These diaries commence on his 20th birthday, shortly after graduation from West Point. Hitchcock's diaries detail his meetings, his involvement in momentous events of his day, and his summations and opinions of those events, up to his death in 1870. Hitchcock served his army, and our country, with honor, integrity and distinction in many roles.

He was at various times Inspector General, Commandant of Cadets at West Point, and personal military advisor to President Lincoln and the Secretary of War during the US Civil war. Many of the successful decisions in the use of manpower and equipment during this period were from the head, heart and hand of Major-General Hitchcock.

After reading this book, I am compelled to read the complete and unedited personal diaries. I feel that many historical works in print need to be changed in light of these first hand accounts and observations herein given personal attention by Major-General Hitchcock.

I thought that The Hero of Ticonderoga is a great book. The author of this terrific story is Gail Gauthier. My favorite part is when Theresa first did the oral report on who the hero of Ticonderoga was and she had to learn all about him. She has all the information that is not needed. She ends up having to do the report over and over again. Each time she gets more information. The oral report is supposed to be given to the person that scores the highest on a test. Then the teacher has to leave, so a substitute comes in and picks a name out of a hat. It is Theresa's name. That is how all the trouble starts. If you want to find out more, read The Hero of Ticonderoga.

This is a middle volume in an eight-volume set of books which exhaustively covers the many origins and history of the Civil War from 1947 onward. For any student of history it is invaluable in its coverage of the roots of the war and its conduct. This volume deals with the haphazard beginnings of the war in North and South when both sides thought that the war would be brief, and -- so to speak -- fun. Obviously that was a triumph of romanticism and fanaticism over logic; the truth was bloody and protracted. Despite the author's tendency toward lengthy sidebars, this is valuable history, fairly well written. Nevins could have used an editor, but so could most acedemics. This is worth the price, but consider reading the earlier volumes first.

This masterwork, one of the finest volumes ever written on the Civil War, is beautiful, timeless and provocative. Nevins writes effortlessly while using words such as "evinces" and "deputed" in a style that is lofty but not haughty. More than vocabulary or even style, however, is the weight this book carries in shear analytic power of historic events. Here is a historian who knows the real story and who has read the primary text. Yet this is not academic drivel, excessively given to the meanders of a minor player. This is what history should be. This is the language, the insite, the detail that convince a reader of a rare gift. Many set out to be what Nevins was, few come close.

Every school child learns how Ethan Allen and the Green Mountain Boys seized Fort Ticonderoga from the British. If you'd like to learn more about this colorful character, or how the Green Mountain Boys got their name, or how Vermont became a state, you'll want to read this book.

Stewart Holbrook's book about the larger-than-life hero of what was then the frontier of New England is both an entertaining and educational work. It is suitable for both adults and students. If Holbrook mixes anectdotal information along with the more scholarly facts, he must be readily forgiven, for Ethan Allen is a legendary figure and the folklore surrounding him and his gang is part of his story.

Allen's Green Mountain Boys are portrayed as something of the Robin Hood and his Merry Men of the New Hampshire Grants. The Grants, which are now the state of Vermont, comprised the desirable country disputed by New Hampshire and New York in the colonial era. The New York claimants are portrayed as wealthy land barons and speculators, while the New Hampshire folk are the honest family farmers. Ethan Allen rises up as the hero of the people in this protracted real estate battle. Many memorable confrontations are contained in this readable volume. Allen and his Boys made their headquarters in the Catamount Tavern in the Green Mountains, where they schemed against New Yorkers and the British while tossing back "stonewalls", a combination of hard cider and rum.

During the taking of Fort Ticonderoga, Allen was asked by one of the British officers "by what authority" he was seizing the fort. Allen's famed reply, "by the authority of the Great Jehovah and the Continental Congress" is acknowledged in the book as possible fiction. However, the rousing and belligerent nature of the words is purely in character for Allen. His equally colorful cohorts, all of them hard-drinkers, expert woodsmen, and deadeye shots, round out the picture of life on the edge of the colonized New World.

You'll enjoy this book, and you'll learn a lot about a one-of-a-kind American hero.

After the fraud Belleisles perpetuated in his Arming America book, I must confess that I read Revolutionary Outlaws with a more than sceptical eye. It is well written, but I find myself wondering if I can trust this author again.

I highly recommend this book to anyone interested in 18th century American history. It deals with a light hand with complex issues of both economic, political and religious history. It is also very cogently argued and entertaining.
Great stuff.

Yes, my name really is Ethan Allen. This is an excellently researched and well documented account about a very little known chapter of the American Revolution. The book is the story of Vermont's struggle for statehood. It explores the economic, social, and political pressures that led Vermonters to create their own government in spite of threats from Enland, New York, and Continental Congress. This book is a good study of how government derives its power from the people. The reading is a little slow at times, but good history often is, and this is more than worth the effort.

Among our wedding gifts was this book. I am sorry that anyone paid money for it. I guess I don't trust books put out by a manufacturer who just wants to sell me some product. I don't trust in the integrity of the ideas in a book like this. It's a glorified catalog.

I just bought my second copy of this book, after giving my first to a friend. In contrast to the first reviewer, I found this book very helpful. Although it's true that the photographs in this book show furniture by Ethan Allen, the text never mentions their products specifically. It does lay out a very realistic 1-2-3 approach to decorating that allows you to make progress without breaking your budget. It shows you how to start with the basics and layer on the style as your checkbook allows, without the room ever looking or feeling or half-done. I own quite a few books on home decorating and this is one of the more practical and useful ones on my bookshelf.

Are the only reason I can think of anyone buying this Book. The Book describes extremely powerful Mages, (In a 2nd Ed format), and uses of spheres levels 6 and 7. These powers are kind of silly, (Forces 6 can used to destroy Planets), and then the book goes on to suggest ideas for Archmage campaigns. Ancient Vampires are listed as foes for a Cabal of Archmages, among a few others. There is another book - "Masters of the Art", or somesuch which has better material, but doesn't have the brief description of the Horizon Realm detailed in this book. Or the Level Six Sphere Powers.

I initially purchased this book as an aid to an umbra-based Mage game I was running. The book gave me a few ideas, but ultimately I found it was less useful than most of the other Mage books I own.

The book is, as its title suggests, all about the history, geography, society, and politics of the Horizon Realm. It also contains a good deal of information regarding "recent" events. This information is a story unto itself and unfortunately dominates a good portion of the content. This is not to mention all the hanging questions it leaves regarding the realm itself and the Mage universe in general. My curiosity was piqued in that regard, but still I found little that I was interested in working into my games.

Horizon's entire history is detailed here. It's an interesting read, but of dubious value. The biographical information on the archmages was admittedly well-written and interesting (if a little predictable), but I personally never use someone else's characters so it was also of little use to me. This goes double for the story they slipped in between the informative bits. On the other hand, the information about the secret societies of Horizon Realm was just enough to spark ideas for entire chronicles. The geographic information was very thorough as well, including maps and detailed descriptions. Again, not something I would bother using but useful for some Storytellers.

Overall, this is just a typical setting book with a cool underlying story. Storytellers who like to know where every little thing is located and who every one of the big players is will probably find this book very helpful. Those who prefer to create the majority of their games from scratch, like myself, might not have much use for about half the content. A better resource for such people might be The Book of Worlds. Still, Horizon is, if nothing else, a fun read.