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

by Charles C. Cole Jr.

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813129699
• ISBN13: 9780813129693
• Release Date: June 2010
• Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 0.94 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher