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Edmonds, Walter D(umaux)

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Edmonds, Walter D[umaux] (1903–1998), New York author, graduated from Harvard (1926), and is best known for his historical novels about his native state. These include Rome Haul (1929), a story of the great days of the Erie Canal; The Big Barn (1930); Erie Water (1933); Drums Along the Mohawk (1936), a novel of the American Revolution and its effect on Mohawk Valley farmers; Chad Hanna (1940) and Young Ames (1942), about boys in the 1830s; Tom Whipple (1942), the story of a Yankee lad, retold from a work by Lydia M. Child; In the Hands of the Senecas (1947), about the frontier of 18th‐century New York state; The Wedding Journey (1947), a novelette set on an Erie Canal boat in 1855; and The Boyds of Black River (1953), about upper New York state farmers in the 1900s. He has also written children's books; Mostly Canallers (1934), short stories; and They Fought with What They Had (1951), about the army air forces in the southwest Pacific, 1941–42. Rome Haul was dramatized by Marc Connelly and F.B. Elser as The Farmer Takes a Wife (1934).

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