Memoir of John Mason Peck D.D.: Forty Years of Pioneer Life

by Rufus Babcock and John Mason Peck

Book Overview

The Memoir of John Mason Peck contains an extensive, firsthand, and often detailed "pre-sociological" account of pioneer life as reported by this remarkably systematic and disciplined observer. John Mason Peck (1789-1857), a pioneer Baptist missionary to the Illinois territory, was one of the most active as well as influential men on the Illinois frontier. He left fifty-three volumes of journals and diaries with the request that Rufus Babcock...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0809397072
• ISBN13: 9780809397075
• Release Date: August 1973
• Publisher: Southern Illinois University Press
• Length: 453 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.4" x 8.4"