by Walter D. Edmonds

Born in upstate New York's Boonville in 1903, Walter D. Edmonds focused on the region's history and people in most of the novels he wrote. Drums Along the Mohawk centers on the experience of settlers in the Mohawk River Valley during the Revolutionary War. This book first appeared in 1936, when the United States was in the midst of the Great Depression and thousands of Americans were struggling through the same kind of poverty that the novel's main characters experience. At the same time, events were taking place throughout the world that would eventually expose this later generation of Americans to the horrors of war.

Events in History at the Time the Novel Takes Place

Life on the frontier. Drums Along the Mohawk focuses on the inhabitants of German Flats, the westernmost frontier settlement in the Mohawk Valley of New...