Edmonds, Walter D[umaux]
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...
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