Northwest Passage is one of a number of historical fiction novels  
written by Kenneth Roberts. He wrote a number about 18C and early 19C  
American history (Rabble in Arms, The Lively Lady, Arundel, Lydia  
Bailey, Oliver Wiswell, etc.  He also wrote some history including  
March to Quebec (which has the journals of a number of the officers  
involved in the American expedition under Benedict Arnold), Journals  
of Lewis and Clark, The Battle of Cowpens, and some books on Maine  
and New England. In his later years he got a bit strange and wrote  
three books on dowsing.

James Brothers, RPA
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On Jun 6, 2006, at 12:58, George Myers wrote:

> American actor Spencer Tracy portrayed Major Robert Rogers in
> "Northwest Passage" in 1940, the second written volume, the sequel was
> never filmed, though said to be a popular historical novel at the
> time. I posted an article that appeared in the press in a comment
> "Statue of Maj. Robert Rogers to be unwrapped this Memorial Day, 28
> May 2005" Associated Press at
>
> http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0032851/usercomments?start=10 and its
> linked to histarch
> at http://lists.asu.edu/cgi-bin/wa?A2=ind0505&L=HISTARCH&P=R6266&I=-3
> and was submitted to eCULTURAL RESOURCES
> http://www.eculturalresources.com/
>
> 05/28/05 Associated Press Chris Carola "FORT EDWARD, N.Y. - Maj.
> Robert Rogers, the frontiersman whose 18th century manual on guerrilla
> warfare has become a blueprint for Army Ranger fighting tactics, is
> getting what some consider a long-overdue honor: a statue in his
> memory. But some veterans believe unveiling the monument on Memorial
> Day is insensitive because Rogers was loyal to England during the
> Revolutionary War. ... Fearing Rogers was a British spy, Washington
> turned down his request to join the Continental Army at the outset of
> the American Revolution. Rogers went on to raise a company of loyalist
> rangers, but failed to have the impact he had in the previous war. A
> heavy drinker, he died a pauper in England in 1795 and lies buried
> somewhere beneath the streets of London. ... Controversy aside, a
> tribute to Rogers is long overdue, said Stephen Brumwell, a British
> author whose latest book, "White Devil," details the most famous
> exploit of Rogers' Rangers: the 1759 revenge raid on an Abenaki Indian
> village in Quebec. The raid that inspired the 1826 novel "The Last of
> the Mohicans," by James Fenimore Cooper. ... "He earned his statue the
> hard way," Brumwell said in a telephone interview from his home in the
> Netherlands. "While others were sitting out the French and Indian War
> in Boston and New York, he was leading patrols into enemy territory,
> often in the very depths of winter."