"Bloody Mohawk: The French and Indian War & American..." Topic

… Revolution on New York's Frontier.

"In this narrative history of the Mohawk River Valley and surrounding region from 1713 to 1794, Professor Richard Berleth charts the passage of the valley from a fast-growing agrarian region streaming with colonial traffic to a war-ravaged wasteland. The valley's diverse cultural mix of Iroquois Indians, Palatine Germans, Scots-Irish, Dutch, English, and Highland Scots played as much of a role as its unique geography in the cataclysmic events of the 1700sthe French and Indian Wars and the battles of the American Revolution. Patriots eventually wrenched the valley from British interests and the Iroquois nations, but at fearsome cost. When the fighting was over, the valley lay in ruins and as much as two-thirds of its population lay dead or had been displaced. But by not holding this vital inland waterwaythe gateway to the West, "the river between the mountains"America might have lost the Revolution, as well as much or all of the then poorly defined province of New York"
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Armand

The topic of this book interested me greatly but the reading was a hard slog.

Agreed. Have the book, good reference but not an easy read.

I read it too. Some of the information was eye-opening.
Can anyone recommend one on the same topic that reads better?

Thanks for the heads up. It isn't my area of interest at the moment, but hopefully one of the local libraries will have it.

For a great FIW read,I recommend Fred Anderson's Crucible of War.

Anderson is great, but he does the whole war, not just the Mohawk Valley.
He also doesn't cover the American Revolution.

I recently found a copy of "Drums Along the Mohawk", an excellent novel of the Mohawk during the American Revolution. It lays out the various social/ethnic/religious issues between Tories and Whigs in the Valley, has some compassion for the Indians but is flawed by the standard 1930's attitude towards Blacks. In spite of the last I found it an easy read and informative.

It is minus the banzai assault of the Indians that ended the film. On the other hand, the film left out the gratuitous sambo stuff of the novel.

I'd say it is almost as informative as the history book above and way easier to read.

Glad you like it my friend.

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Armand

Fintan O'Toole's 'White Savage' about the 'Irish Tory' William Johnston who acted as middleman between the Iroquois and the British over thirty years.