This novel is about a small community and its relationship with Methodist circuit-riding preachers who traveled the frontier.
Based on the author's own life as well as the life of Ohio itinerant preacher Jacob Young, this 1874 novel of a frontier Methodist minister and Bible agent presents a...
Sharpshooting, hard-drinking Bird Hitchcock yields to no man, but a woman's gotta work. And so she hires herself out as the circuit rider's gun hand, protecting him along the treacherous trail from Missouri westward.
From the very beginning of the settlement of the United States, there have been itinerant preachers who brought the word of God to the frontier. They were often called acircuit riders.a This is the story of one of them.
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