Drums Along the Mohawk
Drums Along the Mohawk is a historical novel of
the American Revolution written by Walter D. Edmonds. Published in 1936 and extremely popular, it was the basis for a 1939 John Ford movie starring Henry Fonda, Edna May
Oliver and Claudette Colbert.
The setting for both movie and novel was the Mohawk River Valley during
the American Revolution, which was subjected to numerous
raids by the British, American
Tories, and their Iroquois allies. Included in both works is an inaccurate
representation of the siege of Fort Stanwix.
In the movie, Henry Fonda played pioneer settler Gil Martin, with Claudette Colbert as his wife Lana Magdalena Martin.
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