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Drums along the Mohawk
Walter D. Edmonds
Paper $24.95
| 978-0-8156-0457-0
| 2012
"The best work of its kind. Throbs with life upon a hostile
frontier . . . doubly thrilling as Mr. Edmonds sets it down,
touched with local color, lively with dialogue, bright with
suspense."—New York Times
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Walter D. Edmonds has been a National Book Award winner and recipient of
the Newberry Medal. He is the author of Bert Breen’s Barn, The Boyds of Black
River, In the Hands of the Senecas, Mostly Canallers, Rome Haul, Time to Go House, and most recently the autobiographical Tales My Father Never Told, all
available from Syracuse University Press.
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The seventy-fifth anniversary of the publication of Drums along the
Mohawk reminds us not only that Edmonds’s masterpiece is the best
historical novel about Upstate New York since James Fenimore Cooper
but also that it was number one on the best-seller list until overtaken by
Gone With the Wind.
This is the story of the forgotten pioneers of the Mohawk Valley during
the Revolutionary War. Here Gilbert Martin and his young wife struggled
and lived and hoped. Combating hardships almost too great to endure,
they helped give to America a legend that still stirs the heart. In the midst
of love and hate, life and death, danger and disaster, they stuck to the
acres that were theirs and fought a war without ever quite understanding
it. Drums along the Mohawk has been an American classic since
its original publication in 1936. This Syracuse University Press edition
reproduces the book in its entirety.
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5 1/2 x 8, 608 pages, 1 map
Not available in the British Empire and Commonwealth
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