WALTER EDMONDS has made a place
for himself in American literature. He has done for New York State and the Erie
Canal something of what Mark Twain did for the Mississippi Valley. In his
novels, Rome Haul and Erie Water, and
now in these stories, he has re-created the life of a great waterway and of the
people who lived upon it and along its banks.
In these stories you see the
immigrants going west and the trappers and farmers returning with their hauls,
the fine ladies and gentlemen who rode on the fast boats, the bullies who
carried the freight. And then when, with the coming of the railroads, the Erie
dropped into disuse, you see the canal folk retiring to the farms and building
up communities which harked back to a more glamorous past.
These tales, in their infinite
variety, their vivid color, their authenticity, and their rich, lusty humor,
may well become a permanent part of an American's literary heritage.
This special edition of MOSTLY
CANALLERS by Walter D. Edmonds has been made available to the Armed Forces of the
United States through an arrangement with the original publisher, Little, Brown
and Company, Inc., Boston, by whom it is published in association with the
Atlantic Monthly Press.
Editions for the Armed Services, Inc.,
a non-profit organization established by the Council on Books in Wartime
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