Reverend Joseph Tarkington: Methodist Circuit Rider

by David L. Kimbrough

Tracing the rise in fortunes of a Methodist minister in nineteenth-century Indiana, this book presents a vivid and revealing picture of the political, social, and religious culture of that place and era. Born in Nashville in 1800, Tarkington experienced an early life of harshness and deprivation, the common lot of pioneer farming families. Disdainful of slavery, the Tarkingtons eventually left Tennessee for Indiana, where they settled in Monroe County...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0870499793
• ISBN13: 9780870499791
• Release Date: September 1997
• Publisher: Univ Tennessee Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 1.38 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.4" x 9.3"