

Drums along the Mohawk
Author: Walter D. Edmonds
Narrator: Mark Bramhall
Unabridged: 21 hr 1 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
Published: 08/04/2015
Categories: Fiction, Classic, Historical Fiction
Author: Walter D. Edmonds
Narrator: Mark Bramhall
Unabridged: 21 hr 1 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
Published: 08/04/2015
Categories: Fiction, Classic, Historical Fiction
Walter D. Edmonds (1903–1998) was born in New York state. His 1936 novel Drums along the Mohawk was a bestseller for two years. His later works received major literary awards, including the National Book Award and the Newbery Medal.
Mark Bramhall has won the prestigious Audie Award for best narration, more than thirty AudioFile Earphones Awards, and has repeatedly been named by AudioFile magazine and Publishers Weekly among their “Best Voices of the Year.” He is also an award-winning actor whose acting credits include off-Broadway, regional, and many Los Angeles venues as well as television, animation, and feature films. He has taught and directed at the American Academy of Dramatic Art.
Note, Dec. 6, 2020: I just edited this to insert an accidentally-omitted comma. Written in a solidly Realist style, this novel was part of the vanguard of the introduction of the Realist school to the historical fiction genre; as late as the early 1900s, Realist writers and critics such as Frank Norr......more
This should be required reading for New York state grammar or high school students the year they study the Revolutionary War. It follows a young couple and their community throughout the war period. The battles, betrayals, babies born and lost, farms and houses burned, people and animals slaughtered......more
An amazing experience that can be enhanced with reading Forgotten Allies about the role of the Oneidas in the Battle of Oriskany. The familiar movie with Henry Fonda does not match the fine book in style or substance. I have read several articles about the Battle of Oriskany and the author is amazingly......more
Been meaning to read a Walter Edmonds book for many years, since I married a Western-New Yorker and travel there frequently. I loved the Matchlock Gun as a kid and was so excited to find out that Edmonds wrote extensively beyond that. This book over-delivered for me. I made the mistake of reading it......more
A pair of newlyweds head out to the New York wilderness to start a new life together, but with the Revolutionary War comes trouble and hardship. Plus, Indians. Yeah, not my cuppa, I suppose. Just not...interesting enough? Which is too bad because it really could have been.......more
“The best work of its kind. Throbs with life upon a hostile frontier…doubly thrilling as Mr. Edmonds sets it down, touched with local color, lively with dialogue, bright with suspense.” New York Times