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Drums along the Mohawk / by Walter D. Edmonds ; with a foreword by Frank Bergmann.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: New York classicsPublication details: Syracuse, NY : Syracuse University Press, 1997.Edition: 1st Syracuse University Press edDescription: xvii, 592 p. : map ; 21 cmISBN:
  • 0815604572 (pbk. : alk. paper)
  • 9780815604570 (pbk. : alk. paper)
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Contents:
Foreword, Frank Bergmann -- Author's Note -- Drums Along the Mohawk.
Summary: Here 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 which still stirs the heart. In the midst of love and hate, life and death, danger and disaster, they stuck to the acres which 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 reprints the book in its entirety.
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Adult Book Adult Book Main Library Fiction Edmonds Wal Available 33111006667253
Total holds: 0

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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.

Foreword, Frank Bergmann -- Author's Note -- Drums Along the Mohawk.

Here 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 which still stirs the heart. In the midst of love and hate, life and death, danger and disaster, they stuck to the acres which 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 reprints the book in its entirety.

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