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The circuit rider : a tale of the heroic age

Title
The circuit rider : a tale of the heroic age / by Edward Eggleston, author of "The Hoosier school-master," "The end of the world," etc.
Author
Eggleston, Edward, 1837-1902
Publication
New York : J.B. Ford & Company, 1874.

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Additional Authors
  • Karst, John, 1836-1922
  • J.B. Ford and Company, publisher.
Description
332 pages, 10 unnumbered pages : illustrations; 19 cm
Summary
This novel is about a small community and its relationship with Methodist circuit-riding preachers who traveled the frontier.
Subject
  • Circuit riders > Juvenile fiction
  • Brothers > Juvenile fiction
  • Students > Juvenile fiction
  • Teachers > Juvenile fiction
  • Widows > Juvenile fiction
  • Sick > Juvenile fiction
  • Christian life > Juvenile fiction
  • Brothers
  • Christian life
  • Circuit riders
  • Sick
  • Students
  • Teachers
  • Widows
Genre/Form
  • novels.
  • publishers' catalogs.
  • Novels
  • Publishers' catalogs
  • Fiction
  • Juvenile works
  • Christian fiction.
  • Publishers' catalogs.
  • Fiction.
  • Novels.
  • Juvenile literature – New York (State) – New York – 1874.
  • Publishers' advertisements – New York (State) – New York – 1874.
  • Publishers' catalogs – 1874.
  • Romans.
  • Catalogues d'éditeurs.
Note
  • "Originally appeared as a serial in the Christian Union"--P. vi.
  • Publisher's advertisements: [10] pages at end.
  • Bound in brown, lettered and ornamented in black and gold.
  • "Printing B" as described in Jacob Blanck, Bibliography of American Literature, item 5106.
Contents
The corn shucking -- The frolic -- Going to meeting -- A battle -- A crisis -- The fall hunt -- Treeing a preacher -- A lesson in syntax -- The coming of the circuit rider -- Patty in the spring-house -- The voice in the wilderness -- Mr. Brady prophesies -- Two to one -- Kike's sermon -- Morton's retreat -- Short shrift -- Deliverance -- The prodigal returns -- Patty -- The conference at Hickory Ridge -- Convalescence -- The decision -- Russell Bigelow's sermon -- Drawing the latch-string in -- Ann Eliza -- Engagement -- The camp-meeting -- Patty and her patient -- Patty's journey -- The schoolmaster and the widow -- Kike -- Pinkey's discovery -- The alabaster box broken -- The brother -- Pinkey and Ann Eliza -- Getting the answer.
ISBN
  • 0813101336
  • 9780813101330
LCCN
06037566
OCLC
  • ocm07143832
  • 7143832
  • SCSB-9042509
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library