Beneath the Elms

Daniel Waldron, along with his family, arrived at the northern New York hamlet called 'Elm Hill' in the year 1817 at the age of five - old enough to help his father and two elder brothers clear the land of stones and twigs after the trees had been felled to make room for their new homestead. After settling into their pioneering life in the wilderness, the story shifts to the year 1849 and follows the life and times of Dan and his family as they maneuver through sobering changes, bolstered b...