Through diary transcriptions enriched with background, genealogy, maps and accompanying history, this book chronicles a year in the lives of four Michigan pioneers - Adelbert Worden of Berlin, Ionia County, 1879; Captain Robert Walter Hoy of Fenwick, Montcalm County, 1883; Stephen Staines, 1864, whose family settled in southern Montcalm and northern Ionia Counties; and Sophronia Agatha (Burney) Frayer of Newberg, Cass County, who chronicles her move...