Inventing Ethan Allen
Duffy, John J.
Inventing Ethan Allen [electronic resource] / John J. Duffy and H. Nicholas Muller III. - Lebanon NH : University Press of New England, 2014. - 1 online resource (pages cm) - UPCC book collections on Project MUSE. .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Confused accounts of Ethan Allen's death: later accounts compound the story -- Seeking the main chance: limited education, failed ventures, and the promise of the New Hampshire grants -- Chasing fame and glory: success at Ticonderoga, blundering at St. John, and defeat at Montreal -- Ethan Allen and the historians: discovering a hero -- The many guises of the hero: Ethan Allen in fiction, stone, uniform, and popular imagination -- Making it up: anecdotes, legends, and other dubious tales -- Silence and exclusion: murder, slaveholding, and plagiarism -- The hero keeps his reputation -- Epilogue: the hero lives.
9781611685558 1611685559
Allen, Ethan, 1738-1789.
Soldiers--United States--Biography.
Vermont--History--Revolution, 1775-1783.
United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783--Biography.
Electronic books.
E207.A4 / D84 2014
974.3/03092 B
Inventing Ethan Allen [electronic resource] / John J. Duffy and H. Nicholas Muller III. - Lebanon NH : University Press of New England, 2014. - 1 online resource (pages cm) - UPCC book collections on Project MUSE. .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Confused accounts of Ethan Allen's death: later accounts compound the story -- Seeking the main chance: limited education, failed ventures, and the promise of the New Hampshire grants -- Chasing fame and glory: success at Ticonderoga, blundering at St. John, and defeat at Montreal -- Ethan Allen and the historians: discovering a hero -- The many guises of the hero: Ethan Allen in fiction, stone, uniform, and popular imagination -- Making it up: anecdotes, legends, and other dubious tales -- Silence and exclusion: murder, slaveholding, and plagiarism -- The hero keeps his reputation -- Epilogue: the hero lives.
9781611685558 1611685559
Allen, Ethan, 1738-1789.
Soldiers--United States--Biography.
Vermont--History--Revolution, 1775-1783.
United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783--Biography.
Electronic books.
E207.A4 / D84 2014
974.3/03092 B