The initial
sets for this series "Drums Along the Mohawk" will include militia,
wagoneers, and more girls with guns, all suitable for the American
Revolution and French and Indian War periods.
Walter D.
Edmonds wrote about the area of upstate New York, and detailed the lives
of pioneer farmers along the Mohawk River during the American
Revolution. Edmonds wrote "The Matchlock Gun," which was about a
10-year-old boy defending his home against Indians in colonial New York,
and won the Newbery Medal for Children's Literature in 1942. He also
wrote about four women captives of Indians in 1778 in his 1947 book "In
the Hands of the Senecas". Edmonds' books are considered the richest
body of fiction about the time and region since the works of James
Fenimore Cooper.