of the route that incensed the geologist Robert T. Hill, whose "blatant Texas nationalism" and trans-Texas interpretation would be satisfied by Hallenbeck's book and would be highly influential, but would later be rejected by most scholars. Canada The archaeologist Arthur C. Parker praised Bishop's 1948 biography of the French explorer Samuel de Champlain, Champlain: The Life of Fortitude, as "a good and straightforward account of a mighty hero [that is nevertheless] as exciting as a bit of romance literature", and for making Champlain understandable without running to excessive length. In The New York Times, the book was praised highly both by Orville Prescott ("lively and scholarly biography", "excellent biography") and by John A. Krout ("spirited biography", "Mr. Bishop's spirited imagination evokes from the record a man whose motives are understandable and whose character shines through both failure and success"). The economic historian Irene M. Spry wrote that although Bishop told Champlain's tale "in a sometimes jarringly skittish style [the book] is based on a serious study of first-hand sources and is full both of human and geographic interest". The review in Queen's Quarterly started by saying that the book "might equally well have been entitled Champlain Taken Down off His Monument and Made Human"; regretting that Canadian historians approached figures such as Champlain with humility, even servility; whereas Bishop was able to do so with "good-humoured intimacy" – the result was a "charming book". Though faulting the book for fabricated conversations and minor errors, the historian E. R. Adair praised it as a work "that can be perused with constant interest and pleasure". The historian Milo M. Quaife also criticized Bishop's exercise of his imagination, but nevertheless said that the book "will be a worthy and entertaining addition to the bookshelf of anyone who cares to read about the American past". The review in The American Historical Review described it as an "unpretentious but thoroughly informed and judicious book"; The psychologist Elsie Murray called it "a rare blend of psychological acumen and careful scholarship". The historian Grace Lee Nute was less appreciative: "[N]o one should be misled into believing that this is a scholarly or definitive life of the great explorer, or that it adds anything of note to our knowledge of Champlain's life and achievements." She also found its written style monotonous. Bishop's White Men Came to the St. Lawrence (1961) earned a dismissive mention in a survey of