Finally!
The kindle version is here, worth every penny, a lot of work went into this. The paperback is in review, and the hardback is coming. I am still cleaning up a few minor errors. I find it impossible to publish something without getting at least one year wrong.
James Walker Leverett (1830-1916) was important to our family and important, I think, to the region as a whole. He was one of the earliest settlers of both Nebraska and South Dakota, and grew up basically on the frontier when Illinois was the frontier. This book tells the story of him and his wife and children as they moved around in the very early days.
It is the first thing I have finished in a while, since I've been busy on other family things - not just busy, but seriously sidetracked.
Those of you who follow this blog know that I'm well past 1916 (his death date - this book ends here) by now and yes, I'm partly done with the next book in the series, Bluffs Leveretts. That book will have a narrower more specialized audience since there are only a hundred or so of us who are descended from or related to Bluffs Leveretts. James Walker, however, has thousands of descendants by now, I think, and they're spread out pretty well.
Finally, I promise to put all of them on the template of this blog. The first three, Puritan Leveretts, 18th Century Leveretts, and Pioneer Leveretts, take you right up to this one so this is the fourth in a direct line. The two about famous Leveretts, Walking Boots/i> and Harvardinates, are in the series but not in the line.
