- Courage, Fiction, Frontier and pioneer life, History
In 1756, during the French and Indian War in upper New York state, ten-year-old Edward is determined to protect his home and family with the ancient, and much too heavy, Spanish gun that his father had given him before leaving home to fight the enemy.
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- earnestironic
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- Author
- Walter D. Edmonds, Paul Lantz
- First published
- 1941
- Pages
- 50
- Publisher
- Paw Prints 2007-06-28, Putnam Juvenile, Dodd, Mead
- Editions
- 13
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780396063698
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“EDWARD watched intently as his father struggled into the blue uniform coat that he had had made when he was elected captain of the Guilderland militia.”
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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