Oysterville: Roads to Grandpa's Village

Oysterville is the magnificently told tale of four families who settled up and down the East Coast of America three centuries ago and subsequently migrated west. From Massachusetts, New York, Pennsylvania, Virginia, and Kentucky, they trundled their Conestoga wagons across the prairies, unaware that destiny would eventually bring them to a coast overlooking the North Pacific Ocean, where their genes would commingle in the tiny settlement of Oysterville in the territory of Washington.Drawing on conversations with elderly relations and friends and on historic letters and documents, Willard Espy affectionately reconstructs his own personal past to give us a rich and revealing account of this family that was born, grew up, and died as the United States itself was being shaped and formed, explored, and expanded.Espy, Willard R. is the author of 'Oysterville: Roads to Grandpa's Village' with ISBN 9780295972251 and ISBN 0295972254.