by Matt Wulff. Softbound, 178 pages, 5-1/2" x 8-1/2". Once colonization of North America began, conflict followed. Raiding parties of French Partisan fighters and Native Americans would sweep down from Canada and attack isolated settlements along the frontier of the English colonies, then just as quickly melt back into the forest. A new type of soldier was needed. The Ranger was born...a look at some of the more famous Ranger units from the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries that risked their lives as "guardians of our frontiers."