April 12, 2024
RARE 1947 FORT TICONDEROGA LAKE CHAMPLAIN NEW YORK RARE
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RARE 1947 FORT TICONDEROGA LAKE CHAMPLAIN NEW YORK RARE Description: OFFERED is the 1947 SPECIAL EDITION, Ticonderoga, a Legend of the West Highlands, by Robert Louis Stevenson, as issued by the Fort Ticonderoga Museum, New York, 1947. This epic ballad was first printed in 1887, in Scribner's Magazine, from the author of Kidnapped, Treasure Island, and Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. It is issued by the Fort Ticonderoga Museum, with illustrations and maps of the Fort, history given below. 28 pages, bound in blue cloth with gilt titles, 8x5 inches. Great condition. T are two guidebooks to the Fort inside, we would say from the 40s or 50s. Fort Ticonderoga is a large eighteenth-century fort built at a narrows near the south end of Lake Champlain in upstate New York. The site controls a portage between Lake Champlain and Lake George that was strategically important during the 18th-century colonial conflicts between Great Britain and France. At stake were commonly-used trade routes between the English-controlled Hudson River Valley and the French-controlled Saint Lawrence River Valley. The name "Ticonderoga" comes from an Iroquois word tekontaró:ken, meaning "it is at the junction of two waterways".The French, who called it Fort Carillon, constructed the fort between 1755 and 1758, during the French and Indian War. The fort attained a reputation
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