Born in 1823, died in 1893; graduated from Harvard in 1844;
studied law, but abandoned it for literature; his eyesight
so defective he was nearly blind; professor at Harvard in
1871-72; published his "Conspiracy of Pontiac" in 1851,
"Pioneers of France in the New World" in 1865, "Jesuits in
North America" in 1867, "La Salle and the Discovery of the
Great West" in 1869, "The Old Regime in Canada" in 1874,
"Count Frontenac" in 1877, "Montcalm and Wolfe" in 1884, "A
Half-Century of Conflict" in 1892.
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