Walter D. Edmonds

"The basis for the epic Technicolor film starring Henry Fonda and Claudette Colbert. Lana and Gil Martin marry in 1776, just as the rumblings of war begin to echo throughout the wilderness of the Mohawk Valley. Though aided by strengthening relationships with fellow settlers, establishing their new home on the frontier is constantly threatened by conflicts with British Loyalists and the Seneca Indians, who use violence to drive people off the land....

Set during the widening struggle for American independence. A newly married couple, homesteading in New York's Mohawk Valley, is driven into a nearby fort by repeated attacks from Indian tribes allied with the British.

Homesteading farmers in upstate New York try to protect their home during the Revolutionary War; Dust Bowl refugees search for work in Depression-era California; the Earp brothers fight the Clantons at the O.K. Corral; a mining family in turn-of-the-century Wales struggles for unity and fair pay.

Chad Hanna, a farm boy from upstate New York, joins a traveling circus in the 1840s. Along the way he falls for a bareback rider and in the end saves the circus from financial ruin.