On commencing his former work, illustrative of the revolutionary
history of Vermont,--THE GREEN MOUNTAIN BOYS,--it was the design of
the author to have embraced the battle of Bennington, and other events
of historic interest which occurred in the older and more southerly
parts of the state; but finding, as he proceeded, that the unity and
interest of his effort would be endangered by embracing so much
ground, a part of the original design was relinquished, or rather its
execution was deferred for a new and separate work, wherein better
justice could be done to the rich and unappropriated materials of
which his researches had put him in possession. That work, after an
interval of ten years, and the writing and publishing of several
intermediate ones, is now presented to the public, and with the single
remark, that if it is made to possess less interest, as a mere tale,
than its predecessor, the excuse must be found in the author's greater
anxiety to give a true historic version of the interesting and
important events he has undertaken to illustrate.




THE RANGERS;

OR,

THE TORY'S DAUGHTER