Green Mountain Boys

When Judge Thompson wrote THE GREEN MOUNTAIN BOYS in 1838, he created a classic that would influence generations of Vermonters as the source of favorite legends about Ethan Allen and his brave band of early Vermont militia. For decades teachers in the one-room rural schools of Vermont made it a practice to reward pupils on "good" days with a chapter read aloud from THE GREEN MOUNTAIN BOYS. Language, however, changed with time, and so do styles of story telling. In our faster moving lives, we are impatient with slow-paced wordy older classics. Now, after a century and a half, which thrilled so many Vermont young people, is no longer readable in its original form by youth or even adults of today. It was time to give THE GREEN MOUNTAIN BOYS a renewal of life, to bring this grand old adventure story back to American readers. We now offer this tale in a skillfully edited edition so that today's readers may enjoy one of America's best pieces of historical fiction. Available from Cherry Tree Books - $15.00 plus shipping.Thompson, Daniel P. is the author of 'Green Mountain Boys', published 2000 under ISBN 9780966683240 and ISBN 0966683242.