Description Macmillan, Toronto, 1955, 2nd pr. Great Stories of Canada series. Hard cover, 182 pages. Green boards with boxed blue and orange lettering on front, blue lettering with orange bands on spine. Very light upper corner wear, light lower spine push; binding tight; outer block tanned with age-toning. Dust jacket with price intact shows some edge and light cover wear; short edge tear on upper rear panel; two tiny losses at spine ends; rear panel age toned. Map end papers and pastedowns; interior clean and unmarked with lightly tanned pages; black & white and two-tone illustrations by John MacLellan. ‘When the thirteen colonies of America went to war for the independence, there were many colonists who declared for the King, George III. … the fierce and reviled Butler’s Rangers, a Loyalist regiment which, from a base at Niagara, fought a series of courageous and bitter campaigns during the American Revolution, 1776 to 1783, for the King and for their homes in the State of New York.’ (from front flap)