Lion of the Forest James B. Finley, Frontier Reformer

Name: Lion of the Forest James B. Finley, Frontier Reformer
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ISBN: 9780813150680

ISBN-10: 081315068X

ISBN-13: 9780813150680

Edition: 2014

Authors: Charles C. Cole

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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 Methodist Episcopal Church over the slavery issue.Making extensive use of letters, diaries, and church…

Book details

List price: $75.00
Copyright year: 2014
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
Publication date: 7/11/2014
Binding: E-Book
Pages: 288
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long
Language: English