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The Great Carry: Skywaters Book One Kindle Edition

by Francis J. Smith (Author) Format: Kindle Edition

4.6 23 ratings

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There were multiple players in the European struggle for dominance of North America – Spain, France, England, and mostly forgotten today, although with a legacy in the place names of towns and kills (creeks,) The Netherlands. The Dutch purchased Manhattan from the Indians in 1626, that famous twenty-four-dollar price tag, and gave it up to the British in 1664. The Dutch settled the Hudson Valley from New Amsterdam (today's Lower Manhattan) to Albany. North of Albany were some few scattered outposts, notably Saratoga and Schenectady, but mostly it was wilderness, the inhospitable (even to the Indians,) Adirondack Mountains, a vast no-man’s land separating the dominant North American empires, the English and the French. Those two powers would engage in a hundred-year struggle for control of the continent.

With unimaginable courage, some few men dared venture into the wilderness where the dangers were abundant – wolves, snakes, and most terrifyingly, the Stone Age Indians, fighting with a savage fury to keep what had always been theirs. Men went for a myriad of reasons. For some, it was an escape from stultifying civilization, crude as it was. For others, a chance to get rich smuggling and trapping. Others went to forget, or to escape, and few had any notion of what they were actually accomplishing – the opening of a continent. One of those men, going for the aforementioned reasons, is our indomitable eighteenth-century protagonist, Ken Kuyler, the Albany-born son of Dutch immigrants.

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ASIN ‏ : ‎ B079YQ1MJW
Publisher ‏ : ‎ Centerville Books (February 19, 2018)
Publication date ‏ : ‎ February 19, 2018
Language ‏ : ‎ English
File size ‏ : ‎ 3185 KB
Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
X-Ray ‏ : ‎ Not Enabled
Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Sticky notes ‏ : ‎ On Kindle Scribe
Print length ‏ : ‎ 339 pages
Page numbers source ISBN ‏ : ‎ 1985100517

Best Sellers Rank: #863,449 in Kindle Store (See Top 100 in Kindle Store)
- #193 in 18th Century World History
- #448 in Colonial Period History of the U.S.
- #1,638 in U.S. Colonial Period History

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Francis J. “Smitty” Smith (1945-1992) grew up in historic Ticonderoga, NY in the 1950s, a time and place where the ghosts of old Indians and scouts were more alive than they are today. He was a graduate of the Fort Schuyler Maritime College, the Bronx, NY, and was a career merchant mariner, a lifetime spent traveling the world but with his heart firmly attached to his birthplace in the Adirondack Mountains. He was a hunter and a fisherman, and despite the long months at sea, he usually managed to get home for trout and deer seasons. The ocean “cruises,” while seemingly adventurous to those who stayed home, were lonely and dull, and to fight the boredom, Francis began writing what was to become the Skywaters Series.
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Francis J. “Smitty” Smith (1945-1992) grew up in historic Ticonderoga, NY in the 1950s, a time and place where the ghosts of old Indians and scouts were more alive than they are today. He was a graduate of the Fort Schuyler Maritime College, the Bronx, NY, and was a career merchant mariner, a lifetime spent traveling the world but with his heart firmly attached to his birthplace in the Adirondack Mountains. He was a hunter and a fisherman, and despite the long months at sea, he usually managed to get home for trout and deer seasons. The ocean “cruises,” while seemingly adventurous to those who stayed home, were lonely and dull, and to fight the boredom, Francis began writing what was to become the Skywaters Series.
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Anonymous

A Dangerous Journey narrated by a brave young man .

Reviewed in the United States on March 20, 2020

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This is a historical book about the Adirondack mountains, Hudson Valley and areas as far north as Montreal, Quebec. It is set in the eighteenth century, and follows the life of a young man living in Albany Settlement and his adventures north into mountains of the Adirondacks. It is the dangerous trek of a young man seeking his fortune and bounty of the mountains.
Great story.

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Bill Malaney

A great story of 18th century life in upstate New York

Reviewed in the United States on June 10, 2018

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A great story of 18th century life in upstate New York, closely following the battles between the French and English for control of North America, and complete with early colonists and their push into the wild frontier, along with the raw savagery of the Native Americans fighting for their way of life. It was tough to read at first, until I viewed it as if I was sitting around a campfire listening to Ken Kuyler and his memories of a time ago.

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Walter Chapleau

Interesting Read

Reviewed in the United States on November 6, 2018

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This story takes place in New York State from Albany through the eastern Adirondack region. Being from Ticonderoga, New York, I have hiked through many of the areas the author describes and have visited and/or seen most of the landmarks. The author's descriptions of topography are accurate and although the work is a fiction, the life of the book's characters as depicted are true to the period. I anxiously await the next in the series. RIP old friend.

Reviewed in the United States on December 15, 2020

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The book was an interesting read, especially due to the fact that it included history of the area during that time period. I looked forward to reading a few more chapters when time permitted and was sad that it had to end. Guess I have to get read Book 2.

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W. Ryan

A great early history of the area

Reviewed in the United States on December 1, 2018

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I grew up in the area and with the author. It was great read.

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I am from the Adirondack area which is the setting ...

Reviewed in the United States on July 2, 2018

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I am from the Adirondack area which is the setting for the book. Although not a slick as some more accomplished authors, the story rings true and is engaging.

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Anthony DiMaggio

It's the history of the Adirondacks.

Reviewed in the United States on September 8, 2019

Loved th book!

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