- History, Fiction, Early history, Historical fiction
Set during the American Revolutionary War, *Drums Along the Mohawk* chronicles the lives of the frontier settlers of the Mohawk Valley in New York. Although a fictional account, Edmonds did extensive research and weaves both historical events and persons into his narrative.
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- Author
- Walter D. Edmonds
- First published
- 1936
- Pages
- 592
- Publisher
- Little, Brown, and company, Domain, Tandem Library
- Editions
- 14
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780553274127
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“IT was the second day of their journey to their first home.”
Walter Dumaux Edmonds was born in Boonville, New York, and began a longtime association with Harvard University when he entered Choate Rosemary Hall in 1919. He originally intended to study chemical engineering, but he became more interested in writing and worked as managing editor of the campus literary magazine. He received an A.B. in 1926. In 1929, he published his first novel, Rome Haul, about the Erie Canal. In 1930, he married Eleanor Stetson. His novel Drums Along the Mohawk (1936) was on the bestseller list for two years, second to Margaret Mitchell's 1936 novel Gone with the Wind for part of that time. In 1942 he won the Newbery Medal for his novel The Matchlock Gun (1941). When his
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