ROBERT ROGERS OF THE RANGERS (299 pp.)—John R. Cuneo—Oxford ($6). When TV next manages to turn a folk hero into a public nuisance, by marinating his name in an indelible jingle and spreading ...

Few lives in American history can match the dramatic trajectory of the New England frontiersman Robert Rogers. His bold leadership of a corps of “rangers” during the French and Indian War ...

This book, I discovered, once bore the title "Forests and Clearings." My grandmother had a copy of "Forests and Clearings"! That’s how she knew the story of the Rangers. I don’t think Gram Rose knew ...

FORT EDWARD – Captain Robert Rogers’ document “Rangers Rules” was one of the most important developments in American military history as the forerunner of today’s Special Forces. Rogers ...