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Lion of the forest : James B. Finley, frontier reformer /

James B. Finley -- circuit rider, missionary, prison reformer, church official -- transformed the Ohio River Valley in the nineteenth century. As a boy he witnessed frontier raids, and as a youth he was known as the ""New Market Devil"" In adulthood, he traveled the Ohio forests,...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Cole, Charles Chester (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Lexington, Kentucky : The University Press of Kentucky, 2010.
Colección:Ohio River Valley series.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario:James B. Finley -- circuit rider, missionary, prison reformer, church official -- transformed the Ohio River Valley in the nineteenth century. As a boy he witnessed frontier raids, and as a youth he was known as the ""New Market Devil"" In adulthood, he traveled the Ohio forests, converting thousands through his thunderous preaching-and he was not abovebringing hecklers under control with his fists. Finley criticized the federal government's Indian policy and his racist contemporaries, contributed to the temperance and prison reform movements, and played a key role in the 1844 division of the M.
Notas:Frontispiece: James B. Finley, 1781-1857.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (288 pages) : illustrations
Bibliografía:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9780813150680
081315068X