Research Catalog

Title

In the brush, or, Old-time social, political, and religious life in the Southwest / by Rev. Hamilton W. Pierson, D.D. ; with illustrations by W.L. Sheppard.

Author

Pierson, Hamilton W. (Hamilton Wilcox), 1817-1888

Publication

• New York : D. Appleton & Company, 1, 3, and 5 Bond Street, 1881.
• ©1881.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Sheppard, William Ludwell, 1833-1912
• D. Appleton and Company, publisher.

Description

iv, 321, [1] pages, [1] leaves of plates : illustrations; 20 cm.

Donor/Sponsor

Home to Harlem Project funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

Alternative Title

• In the brush
• Old-time social, political, and religious life in the Southwest

Subjects

• Missions > Kentucky
• Southwest, Old > Social life and customs
• Missions > Southwest, Old
• African American clergy
• Kentucky > Social life and customs

Note

• Copyright by D. Appleton and Company, 1881."--verso of title page.
• "Word-pictures ... gathered ... while laboriously engaged in the duties of my profession, as a general agent of the American Bible Society."-- page 11.
• Last page blank.

Provenance (note)

• is part of the original collection purchased from Arthur A. Schomburg in 1926.

Contents

ch. 1. Why I relate my experiences in the Southwest. Introductory -- ch. 2. My outfit for my life in the brush -- ch. 3. The itinerant pioneer preacher's faithful horse -- ch. 4. Old-time hospitality in the Southwest -- ch. 5. Old-time basket-meetings in the brush -- ch. 6. The baptism of a Scotch baby in the wilds of the Southwest -- ch. 7. Barbecues, and a barbecue wedding-feast in the Southwest -- ch. 8. The old, old book, and its story in the wilds of the Southwest -- ch. 9. Candidating, or, old-time methods and humors of office-seeking in the Southwest -- 10. Some strange experiences with a candidate in the brush -- ch. 11. Experiences with old-time Methodist circuit-riders in the Southwest -- ch. 12. Heroic Christian workers in the Southwest -- ch. 13. Strange people I have met in the Southwest -- ch. 14. Old-time illiterate preachers in the brush -- ch. 15. "Ortonville," or, the universal power of sacred song -- ch. 16. Work accomplished in the Southwest.

Call Number

Sc 917.69-P (Pierson, H. In the brush)

LCCN

03018836

OCLC

• 1545527
• NYPGR1545527-B

Author

Pierson, Hamilton W. (Hamilton Wilcox), 1817-1888, author.

Title

In the brush, or, Old-time social, political, and religious life in the Southwest / by Rev. Hamilton W. Pierson, D.D. ; with illustrations by W.L. Sheppard.

Publisher

New York : D. Appleton & Company, 1, 3, and 5 Bond Street, 1881.

Copyright Date

©1881.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Provenance

Copy in Sc 917.69-P (accession no. B593837) is part of the original collection purchased from Arthur A. Schomburg in 1926. NN

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Added Author

Sheppard, William Ludwell, 1833-1912, illustrator.

D. Appleton and Company, publisher.

Schomburg, Arthur Alfonso, 1874-1938, former owner.

Research Call Number

Sc 917.69-P (Pierson, H. In the brush)

IT (Pierson, H. W. In the brush)

ZDW (Pierson, H.W. In the brush)