Chamberlin Free Public Library Catalog

The matchlock gun /

Edmonds, Walter Dumaux, 1903-1998.

The matchlock gun / - New York : Putnam's, 1989. - x, 50 p. : ill., (some col.) ; 25 cm.

In 1756, during the French and Indian War in upper New York state, ten-year-old Edward is determined to protect his home and family with the ancient, and much too heavy, Spanish gun that his father had given him before leaving home to fight the enemy.

Newbery Medal, 1942.

0399219110 9780399219115

88032471


Frontier and pioneer life--New York (State)--Fiction.
Courage--Fiction.


United States--History--French and Indian War, 1754-1763--Juvenile fiction.
United States--History--French and Indian War, 1754-1763--Fiction.

PZ7.E247 / Mat 1989

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