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The Rangers
"The Rangers" from Daniel Pierce Thompson. American novelist and lawyer (1795-1868).
The Rangers; Or, the Tory's Daughter
Daniel Pierce Thompson (1795-1868) was an American novelist and lawyer born in Charlestown, Massachusetts. He married in 1831 and had six children. Thompson began practicing law in 1823 or 1824 and served as secretary of state for Vermont between 1853 and 1855. He became active in the Liberty Party, and edited a paper associated with the anti-slavery movement for six years. In 1856, he joined the Republican party because of its emphasis on abolitionism. Influenced by James Fenimore Cooper and Walter Scott, he wrote historical adventure and romance novels, many of which feature life in Vermont. His best-known work is 1839's The Green Mountain Boys, a historical novel about the land-grant controversy between New York and New Hampshire, and honouring Ethan Allen's Green Mountain militia. The novel also covers Allen's capture of Fort Ticonderoga and the Battle of Hubbardton. Amongst his other works are: May Martin; or, The Money Diggers (1835), Locke Amsden; or, The Schoolmaster (1847), The Shaker Lovers, and Other Tales (1848), The Rangers; or, The Tory's Daughter (1851) and Gaut Gurley; or, The Trappers of Umbagog (1857).
The Rangers; Or, The Tory's Daughter (Esprios Classics)
Daniel Pierce Thompson (October 1, 1795 - June 6, 1868) was an American author and lawyer who served as Vermont Secretary of State and was New England's most famous novelist prior to Nathaniel Hawthorne. Thompson was Washington County Register of Probate from 1825 to 1830, and Engrossing Clerk of the Vermont House of Representatives from 1830 to 1833 and 1834 to 1836. Thompson became active in the Liberty Party and was active in the abolition movement. From 1849 to 1856 he edited the anti-slavery Green Mountain Freeman newspaper. He was Washington County Probate Judge from 1837 to 1842, and he compiled 1835's Laws of Vermont. In 1838 he was a founder of the Vermont Historical Society.
Nature and Culture in the Northern Forest
Nearly 30 million acres of the Northern Forest stretch across New York, Vermont, New Hampshire, and Maine. Within this broad area live roughly a million residents whose lives are intimately associated with the forest ecosystem and whose individual stories are closely linked to the region’s cultural and environmental history. The fourteen engaging essays in Nature and Culture in the Northern Forest effectively explore the relationships among place, work, and community in this complex landscape. Together they serve as a stimulating introduction to the interdisciplinary study of this unique region. Each of the four sections views through a different lens the interconnections between place and...
The Schoolmaster in Literature
A charming collection of English and Continental literature containing selections from the writings of Ascham, Moli?re, Fuller, Rousseau, Shenstone, Cowper, Goethe, Pestalozzi, Page, Mitford, Bront?, Hughes, Dickens, Thackeray, Irving, George Eliot, Eggleston, Thompson and others.
Montpelier Chronicles: Historic Stories of the Capital City
Four years after the American Revolution, in 1787, Colonel Jacob Davis became the first to clear land in the new settlement that had been chartered as Montpelier. The name honored France for its support of the American patriots. Disasters, industries and larger-than-life personalities helped shape the city's identity. And it didn't take long for Montpelier to make a name for itself--its location created a prime manufacturing hub, and the Vermont Central Railroad made travel convenient. The city also became the scene of the fire of 1875 and the Gould-Caswell murder. Join local historian Paul Heller as he compiles significant moments of Montpelier's past.
The Business of Letters
The Business of Letters is a broad-ranging study of authorial economics in antebellum America that describes writers' exchange practices as profoundly rooted in, and constitutive of, social bonds.
