1855 Among Wild Indians Wyandot Huron Indian Sandusky Ohio Frontier Missionary
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1855 Among Wild Indians Wyandot Huron Indian Sandusky Ohio Frontier Missionary:
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var itemNumber = window.ItemID ? window.ItemID : -1; function passpara(){return + itemNumber + location.href.lastIndexOf(\'/\') + 1));} AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF REV.JAMES B. FINLEY, OR, PIONEER LIFE IN THE WEST. By Reverend James B. Finley. Edited by W.P. Strickland, D.D. Printed in 1855 at the Methodist Book Concern for the Author, Cincinnati. 7.5” x 5” cloth hardcover. Illustrated with engravings. 455 pages.
Condition: Exterior as shown, spine lightly sunned. Firm binding. Text block secure. Pages clean and complete, some foxing. No torn, loose or missing pages.
Description:
This book gives a unique insider’s view of Indian life and traditions in the wilderness once known as the “Old North-West” – that is, from the Ohio River to the banks of the Mississippi, from Kentucky and Tennessee north to Michigan. It also chronicles the daily challenges of an Indian missionary.
“PIONEER LIFE OF THE WEST” was written by a man who lived in the territory among Indians for most of his life, who for decades observed and partook of their daily existence. James B. Finley was a Methodist missionary. He first started preaching to frontier settlements and outposts in 1809, and continued for the rest of his life. His familiarity with Indian customs led him to be stationed at the newly created Wyandot Indian mission at Upper Sandusky, Ohio.
Finley was always a strong advocate for Indian rights and was harshly critical of the federal government’s Indian Removal policy that ultimately forced the Wyandot nation to relocate in Kansas in 1843.
He once wrote:
No living man, probably, has seen and known more of the Indians in the north-west than myself. During almost seventy years I have been among them, as it were – have been acquainted with their principal men, studied their history, character, and manner of life. With me it has not been, as with most who have written about them, a mere matter of theory; for I have been among them, hunted and fished with them, ate and lodged in their wigwams, and been subjected to all the labors, excitements, perils, and privations of life among them. In this long experience and observation, I have gathered up many things which I thought worthy of record. Some of them occurred in my experience as a missionary among them.
Kentucky, Ohio, Indiana, and Michigan, were the great battle-fields between barbarism and civilization in the west. My acquaintance extended over all these states; and there is scarcely a spot celebrated in Indian warfare which I have not visited again and again. Tales of Indian life and warfare were the entertainments of my childhood; the realities of these things were among the experiences of my manhood. Now, when the scene is nearly over with me on earth, I have gathered up these reminiscences of the past, to amuse and instruct the generations of a later age.
In order to give you the most accurate description of this important record of American Indian life during the period of western settlement, I have provided some helpful details below, namely an expanded summary of the book’s contents. If you take a moment to look, you’ll see that these 455 pages are packed with information from start to finish.
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Contents Are:
CHAPTER ONE: His parentage * State and condition of the country at that day * Mission of his father to North and South Carolina * Civil war * Tory party * Tory Major * Patriotic songs * Charles Wesley * His mother * Grandmother * Excitement in the Presbyterian Church on Psalmody * The Methodist preacher * Emigration to Kentucky * Trip down the Ohio * Efforts by Indians to decoy the boats to shore * Fate of Rev. Mr. Tucker * Maysville * Death of his grandmother * Removal to Washington, Mason County, Kentucky * Simon Kenton * Girty * Kenton\'s conversion * Mode of administering justice * Stocton\'s Station * Visit of the Indians * Their depredations * Stratagem of his mother * Captain Cassady * Melancholy event * Early love of the chase * Wolves * Canebrake * My father\'s congregation * Opens a high school * Importance of education.
CHAPTER TWO: Backwoods character * Immigration * Hatred of the Indians * Army under Gen. Harmar * Spies * M\'Arthur and Davis * Incidents * Thrilling adventure of two spies * Spies appointed by Gen. Wayne * Capt. W. Wells * Extraordinary feat * Dispatch to take an Indian prisoner * Adventure * Singular recognition * Capture of a Potawatomie chief * An instance of humanity * Dispatch for another prisoner * A daring act * Wells and M\'Cleland wounded * Irving\'s account of M\'Cleland * Anecdote of a trapper * Pioneer bravery * The soldier-boy * Mrs. Hunter and the Indians
CHAPTER THREE: Life in the backwoods * Food and dress * Cabins * Backwoods wedding * The Buffalo * Mode of catching * Mills of the early settlers * Game * The elk * Bear * Adventure with * The deer * The panther * The wolf * The coon * Sports with * The opossum * Hunter\'s life * Backwoods dress
CHAPTER FOUR: The army of Wayne * Land Speculators in Kentucky * Col. Massie * Meeting at Manchester * Exploration of the Scioto country * Skirmish with the Indians * Another party * Cultivation of land on the Scioto * Town of Chilicothe laid out * Zane\'s trace * Remarks on progress * First wagon driven to Chilicothe * Beauty of Scioto bottoms * My first visit * Diseases of the country * Murder of an Indian * Robbery * The first hotel in Chilicothe * First store * First physician * First ministers * First legislature * Court * Trial by jury * Emancipation of slaves * Trip to Ohio * Destination * Winter camps * Hardships * Indian Antidote * Fondness for Indian life * Early education * Study of medicine * Drove of cattle * Journey to Detroit * Hardships encountered
CHAPTER FIVE: Backwoods biography * Captain Cassady * Taken prisoner by the Indians * Mercer Beaton * Melancholy end * Basil Williams * His fleetness * Duncan M\'Arthur * His character as a spy * Responsible offices * John M\'Donald * A brave man * Boys of those days * Horrible tragedy * M\'Donald joins Wayne\'s army * Surveying tour * Encounter with Indians * Nathaniel Masbie\'s company * His character * Peter Lee * Nathaniel Beasly * William O\'Banion
CHAPTER SIX: Tragical occurrence * Death of Capt. John Herrod * The cold-blooded murder of Wawilaway by Wolf * Death of Williams * Great excitement * Tecumseh * Council at Chilieothe * Peace restored * Trials of early settlers * Mr. Atkinson and family * House attacked by a bear * Brave conduct of the daughter
CHAPTER SEVEN: Return to personal narrative * Winter spent in hunting * Bear hunt * Holiday sports * Marriage and housekeeping * Farming * Hunting * Young folks of that day * Fashionable life * Rev. John Collins * Country schools * Sabbath-breaking * Bear hunt * Loss of property * Solitude of the wilderness * Adventure with a bear
CHAPTER EIGHT: Early religious education * Catechetical instruction * Conversation with my father on election * Winchester\'s Dialogues * Presbyterian elder * Card-playing * Dancing * Great revival of religion in Kentucky * Meeting at Cane Ridge * Sensations produced * Conviction * Mayslick * Pious German * My conversion * Early experience * Persecution from the world * Exercises on the subject of preaching * Awful conclusion * Relapse into sin * Alarm and conviction occasioned by the accidental discharge of a gun
CHAPTER NINE: Awful temptation * Russel\'s Seven Sermons * Methodist preaching * Class meeting * Reading the Scriptures, and prayer * Reclamation * Vows to God * Myself and wife join the Methodist Episcopal Church * Meeting at Fowler\'s * Exhortation * Advice of the pious, old German friend * Erect a meeting-house * Ouarterly meeting at Hillsboro * Rev. John Sale * Called to exhort * An incident * Persecution and temptation * Exercises to the will of God
CHAPTER TEN: Consent to travel Scioto circuit * First appointment * West Union * Surprise * Camp meeting on Paint creek * Receive license as a local preacher * Admitted into the traveling connection, and appointed to Wills Creek circuit * Divine promises * Arrival at Zanesville * Description of circuit * Build a cabin for parsonage * Irish family * Roman Catholics * Conversion * Opposition in preaching * Principal text-books at that day * Preaching under a tree * An old German and son * German woman awakened * Painful incident * Alarming judgment * Visit to a poor woman * Rev. John Strange * Camp meeting on Tuscarawas river * Moravians * Mr. John Bowers and wife * The hunter and trapper * Appointment at his house * Tragical event * Indian Christians masacred * Rev. Mr. Mortimer
CHAPTER ELEVEN: Mrs. Boarer * Her efforts to cross the Capin Mountains * Lost * Snow * Dreadful night * Loses her horse * Unprecedented sufferings * Gave herself up to die * Faithful dog * Found * God\'s grace sufficient
CHAPTER TWELVE: The doomed chieftain * Wyandott warriors * Mr. Sells\'s interference in behalf of the Wyandott chief * Charge of witchcraft * Council condemn and sentence him to death * Preparations for the execution * Manner of death * Burial
CHAPTER THIRTEEN: Knox circuit * Local preachers * Bowling Green * Emissaries of Satan * Revival at Mount Vernon * Rev. Samuel Hamilton * Capt. Gavit * Camp meeting anecdote * Gavit\'s conversion * Rev. Robert Manly * Appointment at Newark * Threats ot the rabble * Man shot * Revival at Mr. John\'s * Conviction of a young lady * Great revival * Young man possessed of the devil * His conversion * Successful labors * My successor * Arian and Socinian heresy * Sad effects of it to this day * Newlights * St. Alban\'s township * The Owl creek Universalist * Fairfield circuit * Rev. Ralph Lotspeech * Extent of the circuit * Local preachers and prominent members * Great earthquake * Consternation of the people * Whisky distiller and party * The young preacher\'s grave
CHAPTER FOURTEEN: Young men called to the ministry * Rev. Cornelius Springer * Rev. Samuel Baker * Rev. Job Baker * Rev. Jacob Hooper * Rev. Henry Baker * John Dillon\'s iron works * The Dillon family * Formation of a class at the iron works * Building of a meeting-house * Bishop M\'Kendree * Rev. John Goshen * His labors * Methodist Church and temperance * Advised to go * Advice to the rowdies * Conference at Chilicothe * Bishop Asbury and the appointments * West Wheeling circuit * Rev. Jacob Young * Guessing at the numbers in society * Roman Catholic convert * Abel Sargent, the halcyon preacher * The unhappy influence of the war spirit * Local preachers * Model class-leader * Poor Jane Craig * The young lawyer
CHAPTER FIFTEEN: Union of Barnesville and West Wheeling circuits * Rev. Michael Ellis * The old German Methodist * An adventurous man * Great revival on Duck Creek * Camp meeting at Fairview * A son of Belial * Cross Creek circuit * Rev. Archibald M\'Elroy * Extent of the circuit * Church discipline * Calvinist controversy * Present of a handsome Bible * Irish Ridge * Letter from brother M\'Elroy * Rev. J. C. Hunter * society at Steubenville * Money mania * Bankers * Towns * Bishop M\'Kendree * His pack-horse * Arrival at the camp meeting * Methodist family at Springfield * Journal * Smithfield Church * Training of members * Conference at Louisville
CHAPTER SIXTEEN: Appointed to the Ohio district * Extent of * Singular custom at meetings * Fanaticism * Calvinism and Universalism * Presbyterian Union * Confession of Faith * Rev. Thomas Branch * Singular text * Camp meeting * Hostile indications * Captain of banditti * Judge Cushing * A singular case * An English officer * A verdant young missionary * Quarterly meeting in Major Gaylord\'s barn * Dr. Bostwick * The conversion of a French soldier * Camp meeting on Lake Erie * The conversion of the sheriff * Americana horribilis * Two remarkable instances of conviction * Conference at Steubenville * A request for a talented minister * Russel Bigelow
CHAPTER SEVENTEEN: Mode by which backwoods preachers were manufactured in other days * Cumberland Presbytery * Meeting for candidates for the ministry * A wild mountain-boy * His experience * The geologist * Bethel camp meeting * The mountain-boy preacher * Another specimen * Methodist camp meeting near Springfield * Kentucky orator * Personal appearance in the pulpit * Style of preaching * Power over his auditors * Mike Fink, the notorious bully
CHAPTER EIGHTEEN: The young missionary and the robber * The moral condition of the far west, as represented by a certain class * Travels of the young missionary * Arm of the Grand Prairie * The appearance of a suspicious-looking stranger * The alarm of the missionary * Taken home by the stranger * Agreeable surprise * His host a local preacher * Different spheres of usefulness
CHAPTER NINETEEN: The martyr preacher * Richmond Nolley * Summerfield * Cookman * Nolley\'s early life * His call to the ministry * Admission into the traveling connection * Sent to Ed dig to circuit, in South Carolina * Stationed in the city of Charleston, South Carolina. * Washington circuit, Georgia * His habits and labors * Efforts to reach a distant appointment * Melancholy death
CHAPTER TWENTY: Personal narrative continued * Reappointed to the Ohio district * Wyandott Indians * Early modes of worship * Conference in Cincinnati * Bishops * Delegates to General conference * Appointed to Lebanon district * Local preacher * Camp meeting * Camp meeting at Mechanicsburg * Went to General conference * Discordant elements in the body * Proposal to make the office of presiding elder elective * Compromise * Rev. Joshua Soule\'s opposition * M\'Kendree\'s request * Rule adopted to build churches with free seats * Declared to be advisory * Round of camp meetings * Solicited to send a minister to Detroit * Conference at Chilicothe * Returned to Lebanon district * First quarterly meeting at the Maumea Rapids * Dismal journey through the Black Swamp * Meeting with the Wyandotts at Big Spring * Religion of the natives * Adventurous trip to Detroit * Worship in the council-house * Governor Cass * Soldiers awakened under preaching * other appointments * Difficulty with an Indian * Indian reservation * Drew up petition for the Wyandott nation * Request for my appointment at Detroit * Not granted * Appointed to the Wyandott mission * No missionary funds at that day * Mission family * Difficulties connected with the mission * Sister Harriet Stubbs * Progress of scholars in the mission school * Organization of a society * Religion takes hold of the mind of the nation
CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE: Astonishing revival in the west in 1800 * Joint labors of a Cumberland Presbyterian and Methodist preacher * Character of their preaching * Camp meetings * Cane Ridge camp meeting * Great excitement * A bold opposer smitten * Exhortation of a boy * Manner of the exercises * Jerking * Falling * Enthusiasm * Regular Baptists * Carey Allen * Springfield presbytery * Newlights * David Purviance * Gov. Garrard * Secretary * Tract on the Trinity * Shakers * Burton Stone\'s exposition * Immersion * Elder Holmes * Elder Farnam * A. Sargent and his twelve apostles * Elias Sicks * Kidwell and the last edition of Universalism
CHAPTER TWENTY-TWO: Personal narrative continued * Wyandott mission * Report of Judge Leib to Secretary of War * Appointed to Lebanon district * Cincinnati station * Rev. J. F. Wright * Rev. Thos. A. Morris appointed editor of Western Christian Advocate * Returned to district * Appointed to Chilicothe district * Dayton district * A remarkable incident * Zanesville district * Appointed chaplain of the Ohio penitentiary * Superannuated * Appointed to Yellow Springs * Superannuated * Appointed to Clinton-street Chapel, Cincinnati * Wyandott nation removed * Reflections * Mrs. Catharine Walker\'s remarks and poetry Pages
CHAPTER TWENTY-THREE: Rev. Francis Asbury\'s arrival in America * His early religious training * Conversion and connection with the Church * State of the Church in England * Early preaching * Planting of Methodism in America * Labors of the early bishops * Meager support * Methodist Episcopal Church organized * Dr. Coke and Mr. Asbury elected joint superintendents * Interview of Asbury with General Washington * Academical and collegiate education * Cokesbury College * Methodist Church and literature * Asbury\'s visit to New Haven College * A change * The fate of Cokesbury * Asbury and Sabbath schools * Asbury\'s spirit * His general experience * His regard for the preachers * Incident in his travels * His amor patriot * Wesley\'s political opinions * Death of Washington * Asbury\'s opinion of * Celibacy of Bishop Asbury * Coke and Whatcoat * Close of Asbury\'s life
CHAPTER TWENTY-FOUR: Bishop M\'Kendree * Camp meeting on Little Miami * Personal appearance of M\'Kendree * His preaching * First interview with him * Thrilling incident * M\'Kendree requested to preach his principles in full * Attacked by three Presbyterian elders * Circumstances connected with his election to the superintendency * Description of his sermon before the members of the General conference * Effect of that sermon * Prediction of Bishop Asbury * Twenty-seven years a bishop * Impartial in all his official acts * The close of his life
CHAPTER TWENTY-FIVE: Rev. David Young * His parentage * Early life * Experience * Relapse * Wonderful preservation * His educational advantages * Taught a German school in Tennessee * Cumberland Presbyterians * Meditations * Convictions * Went to a large meeting * Obtained religion * Joyous emotions * Became a Methodist preacher * Views of the Cane Ridge revival * Appointed to Wayne circuit, Kentucky * His colleague * Total eclipse * Appointed to Livingston circuit * Extent of * Afflicted * Curious Indian burying-ground * Improper class-leaders * On his way to conference falls sick at Lexington * His personal appearance and general character
CHAPTER TWENTY-SIX: Early life of the Rev. John P. Finley * Professor of Languages in Augusta College, Kentucky * Fate of Augusta College * Finley is received into the traveling connection * Dr. Bascom\'s tribute to his memory * Analysis of his character * Fifteen years in the ministry * Character as a man * As a teacher * As a husband * As a father * As a friend * As a minister * His triumphant end * Rev. Jonathan Stamper\'s singular dream
CHAPTER TWENTY-SEVEN: Rev. W. B. Christie * Embraced religion in early life * Was admitted into the traveling connection in 1825 * Various appointments * Thrice elected to General conference * His personal appearance * Style of preaching * Power in the pulpit * Smitten with disease in the early part of his ministerial life * Compelled to desist from his labors, and repair to Cincinnati * His health rapidly declined * Religious experience * Christian testimony * Happy death
CHAPTER TWENTY-EIGHT: Indian Biography * Mononcue * His personal appearance * His eloquence as a public speaker * Specimens of his eloquence * Of great service to the mission among the Wyandotte * He was my faithful, well-tried friend and brother * His death * Between-the-logs * His birth and parentage * But little known of his early life * With the Indian army at the Maumee Rapids * Becomes a chief * Made principal speaker for the nation * Sent by his nation to examine the pretensions of a noted Seneca Prophet * Also, to examine the claims of a Shawnee Prophet * Tecumseh\'s brother * Attended a great Indian council of the northern nations * Joins the Americans * Settled in Upper Sandusky * Doherty’s description * His opposition to selling the Wyandott lands * Proceeds with other chiefs to Washington * His reply to the Secretary of War * Result of interview with heads of departments * Embraced religion. * Attends the Ohio conference * Address at New York * Big-trek * Personal appearance * Manners * Residence * At Braddock\'s defeat when a boy * Indian wars * Hair-breadth escape * His conversion * Close of his life * The Mysterious Indian Chieftain And His Bride * Their appearance at the mission * Regarded as superior beings * Personal appearance of the chief * His dress * Hunting apparatus * Horses * Conjectures * The bride * Her personal appearance * Dress * Their tent * Superstitious conjectures * Their mysterious disappearance * Indian tradition
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1855 Among Wild Indians Wyandot Huron Indian Sandusky Ohio Frontier Missionary:
$350.00