A determined collector brings a steamboat to her museum of Americana—by rail.
The journeys 400 years ago of a French and Dutch explorer would forever alter the history of North America
It started with jaunty confidence and skirling bagpipes. Five days later it had turned into one of the bloodiest and most futile battles ever fought on American soil.
Unless the makeshift Yankee admiral with his tiny homemade fleet could hold Lake Champlain, the formidable invasion from Canada might overwhelm the rebel army