Rogers Rangers Recommendations?

[Man of Tanith]

Having just read the Journals of Robert Rogers of the Rangers and watched the episode Ray Mears did i was wondering if anyone could recommend me some more books about this subject?
all suggestions greatfully recieved,
Sam

 

[Bravo4]

The US Army Ranger handbook has a couple of pages on Ranger history.
(large pdf)
http://www.unh.edu/army/docs/rangerHandbook.pdf

 

[John F. Ross]

You're in luck. Random House just published my biography of Rogers. It's called War on the Run: The Epic Story of Robert Rogers and the Conquest of America's First Frontier.

See more information at www.warontherun.com.

On Amazon:

http://www.amazon.co.uk/War-Run-Con...=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1261071675&sr=8-1

If you get a chance to read it, let me know what you think. A lot of descriptions of ranger warfare and technique.

 

[hillwalker]

Try these:
The History of Rogers Rangers - Vol 1 the beginnings
The History of Rogers Rangers - Vol 2 The first Green Berets
The History of Rogers Rangers - Vol 3 Officers and Non Commissioned Officers
The History of Rogers Rangers - Vol 4 the St Francis Raid

All by Burt Garfield Loescher and Published by Heritage Books Inc.

Also Try

The Battle on Snow Shoes by Bob Bearor Published by Heritage Books Inc.

And For the Balanced View

Leading By Example, Partisan Fighters and Leaders Of New France Vol 1,2&3
By Bob Bearor Published by Heritage Books Inc. (About French Guerilla Leaders)

Finally

Wilderness Empire, A Narrative by Allen W Eckert Published by little, Brown and Company (About the French Indian Wars)

 

[hillwalker]

Forgot these :

European and Native American Warfare 1676-1815 by Armstrong Starkey Published by University of Oklahoma Press (Bit Dry)

White Savage by Fintan O'Toole Published by Faber & Faber
(Biography of Sir William Johnson - Indian Agent, General and contempory of Robert Rogers)

The author Bob Bearor (Previous Post)is the Guy Ray Mears interviews in the episode about Robert Rogers.

hope all these help

 

[Man of Tanith]

Hillwalker
thank you very much for a very thorough and comprehensive list. I shall start at the beginning of the list and request them from local library one at a time to give me plenty of reading.

John F Ross i shall also request your book and have a peruse
Cheers
Sam

 

[red dreads]

Robert Rogers of the Rangers. John R.Cuneo.

White Devil. Stephen Brumwell.


And try Empires Collide . Ruth Sheppard. (French Indian War) loads of colour plates on different Ranger units

regds Stevie

 

[Nigel]

Have a look at this
http://users.rcnn.com/smartin.javanet/dore.htm

 

[hillwalker]

Hi man_of_tanith,

Not sure if you'll be able to get these in your local library. The bob bearor and the Burt Garfield Loescher books took me a while to track down and had to buy them from a web site in America. If I can find the sellers information I will post it later.

You may be able to get Wilderness Empire, A Narrative by Allen W Eckert from the library.

Allen Eckert also wrote The frontiersmen, A Narrative, Which centers on Simon Kenton a well known frontierman. The book covers the period from 1755 to about 1840.

Good luck tracking them Down

 

[hillwalker]

Here's the web site I bought the bob bearor and the Burt Garfield Loescher books from

http://wennawoods.com/users/wennawoods-cgi/listpage.cgi?store=books

 

[Man of Tanith]

Hillwalker
thanks very much.
i will try library first tho as christmas has abused my money for foreseeable future but if i have no joy i will just have to buy em.
Cheers
Sam

 

[VtBlackdog]

any chance of posting a video of the ray mears episode? my Mac won't run youtube, but if its embedded here it might work..?

 

[sandbender]

"...White Savage by Fintan O'Toole Published by Faber & Faber (Biography of Sir William Johnson - Indian Agent, General and contempory of Robert Rogers)..."

Thanks to hillwalker for the recommending this book, it was a great read.



Edited to add:

A review may be read here.

 

[Man of Tanith]

i got the war on the run book delivered yesterday from amazon
good read so far
Sam

 

[phill_ue]

The Spencer Tracey film is pretty good, it doesn't follow the story exactly but near as damn it. If you can track it down, it is worth a viewing!