Thanksgiving: The Pilgrims' First Year in America
Glenn Cheney vividly depicts the courage and faith of the Pilgrim settlers and the generosity and friendship offered by the Native Americans who welcomed them and helped them survive. The American culture of independence, hard work, and cooperation grew from the seeds planted at Plymouth. Every American should appreciate what happened there. --U.S. Representative Joe CourtneyGlenn Cheney s ,Thanksgivingbrings together numerous aspects of the Mayflower story into a comfortable and logically organized text, faithfully retelling the story of the Pilgrims  first year at Plymouth, the history behind their voyage, and their interactions with Native Americans. --Caleb Johnson, author & historianThanksgivingshould be read by people who are  familiar with the Pilgrim story and those who are not because it fills in many of the little episodes that people hear but don t connect together. We will never know exactly what happened back then, but this book brings those episodes together in a scenario of how they may well have happened. ---Edward Delano Sullivan - Governor General  -  General Society of Mayflower Descendants