Legrand cannon jr biography

A critical and commercial success when it was first published in , LeGrand Cannon Jr. It has sold over one million copies through various editions and has never been out of print. Seventy-five years on, Look to the Mountain is still a definitive American novel, offering a captivating glimpse of life at the edges of the original colonies, and the grit and determination of the earliest New Englanders.

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LeGrand Cannon. A New England forest dweller has very Fenimore Cooper style adventures and wins his true love. Not particularly memorable. See More Reviews. Buy on Amazon. Rate this book. Look to the Mountain. LeGrand Cannon Jr. Look to the Mountain is one of the most popular and enduring American novels of the past century. The book's history testifies to the continuing appeal of the novel.

It is an enthralling epic of the men and women who settled the New England wilderness. Loading interface About the author. Write a Review. Create a free account to discover what your friends think of this book! Community Reviews. Search review text. Displaying 1 - 30 of 54 reviews. I assigned this to my U. Whit and Melissa are newlywed teens - he's 19 and she's 16 - in New Hampshire.

They set out with all of their wordly goods and a canoe to pioneer in a new township in north central New Hampshire Province. Through seven seasons they clear land, build a log cabin, grow Indian corn and potatoes, hay and rye, add chickens, oxen and children to their family and slowly welcome neighbors to their wilderness home. The impact of the American Revolution is slight on these folks until General Bourgoyne takes Fort Ticonderoga and lets loose the Mohawk Nation on the settlers.

Whit's war consists of one battle at Bennington in what was then part of New Hampshire. The quintessential "American character" is revealed as these tough, self-sufficient, independent people celebrate their ability to make it on their own. And always, the untamed mountain of the title looms above the township beckoning hunter and adventurer alike.

Look to the Mountain is the story of two young pioneers who were the first settlers in Tamworth, NH. Whit Livingston and his wife Melissa overcame hardship, hunger, and danger to clear their land and build a new town. It may have been written more than 50 years ago but I could easily picture the journey to Tamworth and I had the opportunity to drive along the rivers that Whit paddled to reach their new home.

The author was accurate in his descriptions of the river falls, the swamps, and lakes of New Hampshire. I read every moment I could until I finished the book and it will be a book to re-read in the future. Sandra The Old Woman in a Van. My second to last state for my State plus DC challenge. New Hampshire. I picked this classic published in to try and experience more of the early settlement of this part of New England.

It seems most of my education focussed on the Puritan colonies in MA. Likewise, this epic novel captures a very different culture as it describes an early pioneering family as they settle in northern New Hampshire. The period is immediate pre-Revolution and into the first years of the war. The daily lives of these 18th century settlers are spared no detail.

I think of it in comparison to the western plains settlers and there is quite a contrast. More rocks, more logs, no horses, and a lot of hard work. The paucity of talk, stoicism, reliance on signs and spells - no religion, seems to characterize the people.

Legrand cannon jr biography

This was a unique place and culture and one I knew little about. In the 2 years I have completed state challenges I have learned more about the Diversity of the United States than I ever did in school. I think I would adopt this challenge in schools to better teach American culture, history and literature. Look to the Mountain and the settlement of New Hampshire, in contrast, is culturally isolated from the rest of the Americas and its history.

Reading this book at the same time as the other two makes me just think about that diversity and how isolated groups were. In New Hampshire traveling miles meant walking or canoeing and carrying pound packs if you were going to settle in the wilderness. Pioneers, as they were called, were suspect because they were walking away from something - good solid families stayed put.

The universe was small and limited to where you could walk and where you were lucky enough to survive, pretty much alone or as a small nuclear family. You could go your entire life and probably come in contact with less than people. Reading this well researched book, gives one a feel for what this would have been like. For historical fiction lovers, this is a strong recommendation.

Emily Koester. Luckily, I remembered a book sitting on my shelf which I had found years before for free on the side of the road: "Look to the Mountain" by LeGrand Cannon Jr. This book is beautiful in a simple way, yet descriptive so I can picture myself in the beauty of the wilderness. The story begins in , before Whit and Melissa are married, and goes on to when Whit sets out to find a place to build a home in the mountains.

Once married, Whit takes his new wife on the pilgrimage to their home, trekking over rivers and streams, meeting folks who have ventured out before them along the way.