The matchlock gun
By: by Walter D. Edmonds ; illustrated by Paul Lantz.
Contributors: Lantz, Paul, 1908- ill.
Publisher: Putnam's
Published: 1989
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 50
Subjects: Frontier and pioneer life -- New York (State) -- Fiction.; Courage -- Fiction.; United States -- History -- French and Indian War, 1755-1763 -- Juvenile fiction.; United States -- History -- French and Indian War, 1755-1763 -- Fiction.
Description: 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.