A Fair and Happy Land: A Chronicle of Frontier America

I found this book while researching my ancestors the Cleavers. One of the things I enjoy finding in my family search is knowing more about their lives other than birth and place, death and place, children and spouse and this book provided me with that insight into the life of the Cleavers in relation to what was happening around them. ... The book in itself is a great way telling about history and I thoroughly enjoyed it.

I ordered this book because the author is my cousin and I found it to be a fascinating account of the early settlers who migrated across country. It gives a lot of insight into the way of life that most of us can only imagine. Our forefathers were very resourceful and life was hard beyond belief. They walked across the Appalachians before wagon roads were built and carved homes from the wilderness while fighting indians and the British. I can only guess at the desperation or was it pioneer spirit that would drive people to take their families across unknown territory and face such dangers.