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Russell Bellico captures the texture of each period in Lake Champlain’s history through firsthand accounts by witnesses and diarists, both illustrious and unknown. “From long-forgotten military diaries, travelers’ accounts and tourist guidebooks, he brings back to life voices who can tell us what this valley looked like during the past 400 years.” – Nicholas Westbrook, Fort Ticonderoga Museum. -
The unfolding history of pivotal Lake George, through nearly two centuries of eyewitness written accounts. -
Historian Russell Bellico combines his signature lively narrative with contemporary accounts, archeological information, and a wealth of illustrations to present the military campaigns and forts in the Lake Champlain-Lake George-Hudson River Corridor, where the British and French fatefully struggled for control of a continent during the French and Indian War, 1754-1763. -
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The journals of canal boat owner Theodore Bartley, detailing his family's extensive travels plying the canals and waterways of the Northeast from 1861 to 1889, give an intimate glimpse of canal boat life during an eventful period in American history. -
No lakes have a greater claim to a place in American history than Lake George and Lake Champlain. During the first two centuries of European habitation, these strategic waterways formed the theater for the struggle for control of North America, first between the British and the French, then between the British and the Americans. Following those wars, the lakes became an important water highway for goods coming from the resource-rich North to the cities on the Atlantic seaboard. Dr. Bellico opens up this fascinating nautical history and covers recent underwater archeological discoveries.
