New York classics

About Author

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 wife died in 1956, he married Katherine Howe Baker Carr. In 1976 he was awarded the National Book Award for Children's Literature his novel Bert Breen's Barn (1975). Over the course of his career, he published 34 books, many for children.

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Books in this Series

In the hands of the Senecas

Walter D. Edmonds

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The Civil War stories of Harold Frederic

Harold Frederic

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Bert Breen's Barn

Walter D. Edmonds

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A young man attempts to claim ownership to an old barn rumored to contain a hidden treasure.

Drums along the Mohawk

Walter D. Edmonds

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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. First published in 1936, it stayed on the Best Seller List for 2 years and in 1939was made into a color film directed by John Ford and starring Henry Fonda, Claudette Colbert, Edna May Oliver, Ward Bond, and John Carradine.

The Color of a Great City

C. B. Falls, Theodore Dreiser

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Brief descriptive sketches of New York as it was between 1900 and 1914 or 1915.

Grandfather stories

Samuel Hopkins Adams

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A series of short stories Samuel Hopkins Adams collected from his grandfather in Upstate New York.

Listen for a lonesome drum

Carl Lamson Carmer

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Mostly canallers

Walter D. Edmonds

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Time to go house

Walter D. Edmonds

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The adventures of Smalleata, the mouse, when she and her family move into a house vacated by humans for the winter.

Canal town

Samuel Hopkins Adams

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Rome haul

Walter D. Edmonds

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The Boyds of Black River

Walter D. Edmonds

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My kind of country

Carl Lamson Carmer

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The Genesee

Henry W. Clune

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The land and the people and the history along the banks of the famous north-flowing river of New York, with many anecdotes from Indian days to the present.

The traitor and the spy

James Thomas Flexner

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Stories of Saint Nicholas

Paulding, James Kirke

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Throughout the 1820s and 1830s, Paulding wrote a number of Christmas tales, the best of which are brought together in this collection and which predate Charles Dickens's A Christmas Carol. Paulding presents his stories as they have been translated from the original Dutch by a fictitious author. In them Saint Nicholas - a sixteenth-century Dutch Protestant baker - miraculously befriends those who uphold Dutch traditions and sets straight those who are either mean or given to "newfangled notions."