Quote: "The best book on the history of this period is Alan Ekert's "Wilderness Empire."
Francis Parkman is an excellent historian and was a prolific writer about this era. His book "Montcalm and Wolfe" is the best accounting I have read.
I'll check it out. Thanks for the tip.
Eckert was a fascinating read. In fact, Eckert's history didn't say so, but it occurred to me in the middle of reading it that Finmore Cooper in "The Last of the Mohicans" was writing some "reasonable" historical fiction in terms of Cooper's framework for his story.