Walter D. Edmonds

In the Hands of the Senecas

Walter D. Edmonds

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Tales My Father Never Told

Walter D. Edmonds

This new book by Walter Edmonds is a cause for celebration. For decades Edmonds has been one of America's most popular writers. A National Book Award and Newbery Medal winner, his Drums Along the Mohawk is one of the all-time best sellers. His many historical novels about America and his extremely popular children's books have earned for him a loyal and substantial group of fans. Edmonds' latest book, his first in decades, will be welcomed by readers all over. Tales My Father Never Told is a nostalgic look back at another time and place. This is the autobiography Edmonds never wrote. It lovingly recreates his childhood and pre-adolescent days growing up at the foot of the great Adirondacks, in the rural beauty of the Northlands. He writes about his first drunk, his special love for fly-fishing, certain Irish "ghosts" known to inhabit the land along their stream... and his father: "We did not often understand each other then; in the end I was able to see that love had existed, existed on both sides, and perhaps that disclosure is justification for this small book". Tales thus has a thoughtful and sometimes painful edge to it, but there is much humor too, as when the young "Watty" learns to forge his father's signature, or where he hints that the dagger father has mounted over his bed might be tipped with curare. And so, Tales is about youth and rural life, about the early years of one of this country's finest writers and, as Edmonds tells us, it is the story of a father and a son, of the love he felt for the son, deep and real, and of a love that "worked both ways".

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Other editions: Softcover - 2000, Hardcover - 1995

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The Matchlock Gun

Walter D. Edmonds

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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Other editions: Softcover - 1998, Softcover - 1991, Hardcover - 1991, Hardcover - 1989

Drums Along the Mohawk

Walter D. Edmonds

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Drums Along the Mohawk

Walter D. Edmonds

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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Other editions: Softcover - 1992, Hardcover - 1981, Hardcover - 1936

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In the Hands of the Senecas

Walter D. Edmonds

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Time to Go House

Walter D. Edmonds

"'All the best field mice go house in the winter,' Smalleata was told. Thrilling adventures & new experiences await her, & a special friend, house-mouse Raffles. This gem of a book, sensitively illustrated with mouse-gray drawings, is sure to become a classic." (Commonwealth) "A witty & sensitive writer has made a delightful book...Excellent drawings." (Horn Book Magazine) "These mice are quite delightful, clever little people. They 'go house' in the winter, just as birds fly south or summer visitors leave for the city when cold weather comes. It is quite a trek from wood to cellar, & when they are established there is much exploring to be done. Girl wood mouse meets boy house mouse, & a new nest has to be built. A charming, sensitive, funny, funny book." Originally published in 1969 by Little, Brown. Edmonds is the author of Bert Breen's Barn which won the National Book Award for Children's Literature (also available in pap. from Syracuse). Children will love this charming animal tale of adventure & romance & the fascinating characters: Uncle Stilton, Lennox the cat, Reagan Ready the fox, Mr. Gogie, Honeysuckle the bear, & the Rockendollar rats. A "warm & entertaining murine fantasy." (Library Journal).

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Bert Breen's Barn

Walter D. Edmonds

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Other editions: 1988, Hardcover - 1975

Seven American Stories

Walter D. Edmonds

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The Boyds of Black River: A Family Chronicle

Walter D. Edmonds

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Mostly Canallers: Collected Stories

Walter D. Edmonds

Edmund Wilson felt this collection of twenty-four stories, originally published in 1934, contains some of Walter Edmonds' best work. The Atlantic Monthly wrote that 'Upstate New York has provided Edmonds with an inexhaustible store of characters one would like to know.' A number of the stories were award-winning and appeared in such collections as Best Stories of 1929 and The O. Henry Memorial Award Prize Stories.

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The South African Quirt

Walter D. Edmonds

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They Fought With What They Had: The Story of the Army Air Forces in the Southwest Pacific, 1941-1942

Walter D. Edmonds

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