Author John Ross retails a over-looked but crucial name in frontier folklore history in a great colonial era history book

Runs Like Cougar
    A great frontier book of American history focuses on frontier fighter Robert Rogers who basically initiated ranger backwoods fighting in colonial times. Author john Ross writes a exceptional book of the new fighting techniques and policies this man helped produce for the British as they fought both the Natives and french for control of the important Ohio Country and without this stealthy style imitated from the Indians it is doubtful England would ever have wrestled control of most of North America from the French.

This book follows the story of Robert Rogers who joined many British adventurous youth who set out form a life of drudgery farm work and established new lands to take from natives and ventured into untamed territories of mountain, valleys,lakes,and narrow passage ways long home of nomadic peoples of North America. Rumors of French penetration into these contested lands soon saw rogers calling and skill as guide put to use and the numerous clashes and near deaths of Robert Rogers on the frontier are too numerous to mention but the author captures most of the important battles involving Rogers in service of the British against the French.

    John Ross's book called "War On The Run" basically details how dramatically war fare as Europeans had to change and adapt to the new hit and run tactics of the indigenous people in North America and perhaps no one man saw as much crucial action as rogers as his rangers were very influential in fighting as effectively in the North woods as natives.  Author Ross researches like crazy to detail all the near escapes and victories and defeats of Rogers and his rangers in fighting the beautiful abut often brutal landscapes of the North american wilderness is a battle among three peoples that would shape the future of this thinly populated land mass. 

   Rogers and his follies with the rangers were one of the first newsprint war press coverage from a eager Boston populace concerned with the increasing frontier attacks by the audacious natives supplied with fresh powder and modern equipment from England's log standing French enemies. The French,British an Spanish were as friendly as the Comanche,Ute and Apache were with one another in this time period and one can say that inter-tribal and White-Indian relations and warfare was the direct result of these three European empires and their creole and growing independent cousins vying for power and land use to increase their objectives and size.  

This time period was basically the the first of brutal clash of civilizations in North America in many battles long forgotten except for a few movies such as the last of the Mohegans which this book covers in extensive detail the massacre at Fort William Henry. Roger's roles in the response and hep in reversing defeats and eventual turning of the tide is captured as well as the role in quelling Pontiac's rebellion and the battle for Detroit following the defeat of the french as a last ditch pan-Indian alliance of great lake tribes rose up against the victorious British and ranger enemies. Robert rogers had problems with both the British and american rebels leading up to the revolutionary war and he sat this war out often ending up in debt prison during this time period. His role in setting up famed america spy Nathan Hale ends the book and the incredible life and times of this pivotal soldier of fortune who wind up making little fortunes in life dying penniless and countryless even centuries later finding his name obscure despite all that he fought and saw death through his eyes.