The Mohawk Valley by W. Max Reid ~ Full Audiobook [history]

The Mohawk Valley by W. Max Reid audiobook. Genre: history W. Max Reid's The Mohawk Valley is a sweeping, scene-by-scene history of New York's great river corridor from the first sustained European contacts in the early 1600s through the upheavals of the late 1700s. Moving along the valley between Schenectady and Rome, Reid traces how a landscape of forests, waterways, and frontier settlements became a crossroads of diplomacy, trade, mission work, and war. At the heart of the narrative are the Native nations who shaped the region's fate - especially the Mohawks and the wider Iroquois world - alongside Dutch traders, French rivals, and later British and American forces competing for alliances and territory. Blending documented episodes with the valley's long-lived local tales, the book brings forward the human texture behind maps and dates: shifting loyalties, hard choices in isolated communities, and the constant pressure of raids, fort-building, and retaliation. What emerges is not just a timeline of conflicts, but an account of how cultures met, clashed, and adapted in a place whose legends and history are tightly entwined. For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 00 (00:04:14) Chapter 01 (00:12:37) Chapter 02 (00:37:39) Chapter 03 (01:37:34) Chapter 04 (02:08:43) Chapter 05 (02:18:17) Chapter 06 (02:41:16) Chapter 07 (03:05:01) Chapter 08 (03:19:24) Chapter 09 (04:06:16) Chapter 10 (04:39:23) Chapter 11 (04:57:10) Chapter 12 (05:21:58) Chapter 13 (06:19:22) Chapter 14 (06:58:04) Chapter 15 (07:26:23) Chapter 16 (08:14:15) Chapter 17 (08:55:04) Chapter 18 (09:38:08) Chapter 19 (10:20:29) Chapter 20 (11:19:43) Chapter 21 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices