EDWARD watched intently as his father struggled into the blue uniform coat that he had had made when he was elected captain of the Guilderland militia.
An edition of The matchlock gun
(1941)
The matchlock gun
by Walter D. Edmonds and Paul Lantz
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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.
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Courage, Fiction, Frontier and pioneer life, History, Juvenile fiction, Juvenile literature, United States French and Indian War, 1755-1763, Rifles, Newbery Medal, French and Indian War (United States : 1754-1763) fast (OCoLC)fst01800886, Children's fiction, Adventure and adventurers, fiction, United states, history, colonial period, ca. 1600-1775, fiction, award:Newbery_award, lexile:860, lexile_range:801-900, age:min:6, age:max:10, grade:min:2, grade:max:5Places
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Illustrated lining-papers
"First edition."
King Collection copy twelfth printing August 1951, plain end papers, with memorial bookplate
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