Walter D. Edmonds

Wat Dumaux Edmonds

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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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Drums along the Mohawk
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In the hands of the Senecas
Representative edition published 2007
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The matchlock gun
Representative edition published 2007
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Tales my father never told
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Time to go house
Representative edition published 1994
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They fought with what they had
Representative edition published 1993
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Bert Breen's Barn
Representative edition published 1991
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The Boyds of Black River
Representative edition published 1988
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Mostly canallers
Representative edition published 1987
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Rome haul
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The South African quirt
Representative edition published 1985
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The night raider and other stories
Representative edition published 1980
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Wolf hunt
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The musket and the cross
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Erie water
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They had a horse
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Three Stalwarts
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The first hundred years, 1848-1948
Representative edition published 1958
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Uncle Ben's whale
Representative edition published 1955
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Hound Dog Moses and the promised land
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They Fought with What They Had
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Mr. Benedict's lion
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Mr. Benedict's Lion
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Cadmus Henry
Representative edition published 1949
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