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...Fort Erie, Ont., buying the stuff for 24? per Ib. in spite of a vigilant campaign by U. S. customs agents against butter-legging. High butter prices did not indicate prosperity for Bossy's boss. On the contrary, drought has parched pastures of New York's great Mohawk Valley, sent feed prices up as much as 70%. Hard as it might be on city folks, it looked as if the dairyman would have to get more for his milk from the processors and distributors. And he needed it bad enough to risk the physical and financial hazards...
DRUMS ALONG THE MOHAWK-Walter D. Edmonds-Little, Brown...
From 1776 until 1782 the Upper Mohawk Valley in New York was the scene of some of the wildest warfare of the Revolution. Dispossessed Tories who had been driven to Canada raided the small settlements and isolated farms. Indians took advantage of the warfare between whites to hunt scalps, for which they received eight dollars apiece at British headquarters at Niagara. The farmers who made up the U. S. militia hurried home after each victory or defeat, since they had to get on with the crops between battles. Now & then detachments of the regular Continental Army marched in to defend...
Last week these hard years in Mohawk history provided the background for a 592-page historical novel that, unlike most such volumes, was most interesting for its accounts of the unconventional military maneuvers of savages and settlers, least impressive in its pictures of frontier romance. The August choice of the Book-of-the-Month-Club, Drums Along the Mohawk belongs in the imposingly conscientious series of novels (Erie Water, Rome Haul, The Big Barn) that covers New York history from 1776 to 1865. It begins with a long description of the labors of Gilbert and Lana Martin in establishing their...
...Mohawk suits were to have gone to trial this week in a U. S. District Court in Manhattan. Two days before, the company announced its offer to settle with both Mohawk and Morro Castle plaintiffs out of court. The trial was then adjourned, and the lawyers representing the claimants indicated that virtually all their clients would accept...