E. R. Eastman (1885-1970) worked as a teacher and school principal in Interlaken, Richford, and Newark Valley, New York and was employed as agricultural agent in Delaware County. Eastman was one of the founders of the Dairyman's League Cooperative and was editor of its newsletter from 1917 to 1922. In 1922 he became editor of the American Agriculturist, a position he held until 1947. He authored thirteen historical novels. Eastman served on the New York State Board of Regents and he was a trustee of both Ithaca College and Cornell University.
"A farm family living in Columbia County, New York, prior to the War of 1812, is portrayed in migrating over the Catskill Trail to Ithaca, Geneva, and the Genesee Valley. The ideals, hopes and difficulties of the pioneers are presented in a manner to secure and hold the interest of all readers. The activities of this rural family are described from the standpoint of life within the home, life on the trail, and the final settlement in the fertile valley of the Genesee River. The story is based on historically accurate records which should make the novel valuable reading for students of the development and growth of America."-Arthur K. Getman, formerly Chief of Agricultural Education at the New York State Department of Education "In his latest novel, The Settlers, E. R. Eastman deals with the 'Genesee movement,' that strange urge that led so many families and whole communities, following the Revolution and Sullivan's Expedition, to pick up their belongings and plod westward to possess the new land that had lately been the hunting country of the Iroquois. The forest runners and the riflemen found the Genesee country; the settlers had tamed it with their plows and axes. But oh, the price they had to pay in fortitude, in tears and weariness! The characters that live again in Eastman's novel make the reader revise the contribution of the settlers to the making of the Northeast as no historian could hope to do."-Romeyn Berry, author of Dirt Roads to Stoneposts and Behind the Ivy
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