Drums Along the Mohawk

Drums Along the Mohawk is a 1936 historical novel by Walter D. Edmonds that follows the fictional lives of Gil and Lana Martin, settlers in the central Mohawk Valley of New York during the American Revolutionary War. The story portrays their struggles with Loyalist and Native American attacks, militia battles, and the hardships of frontier life.

The novel incorporates real historical figures and events such as the Battle of Oriskany and the Attack on German Flatts, providing a nuanced view of the war's impact on frontier settlers.

It was a bestseller and has been widely assigned in schools, shaping popular perceptions of the period.

In 1939, the novel was adapted into a Technicolor film directed by John Ford, starring Henry Fonda and Claudette Colbert, though the film simplified the novel's complex historical context into a more mythic American triumph narrative.