Autobiography of Peter Cartwright: The Backwoods Preacher (Classic Reprint)

Foe many years past, and especially during the last ten or twelve, I liave lieen almost unceasingly importuned to write out a history of my life, as one among the oldest Methodist traveling preachera west of the mountains. This would necessarily connect with it a history of the rise and progress of the Methodist Episcopal Church in the great valley of the Mississippi. And surely a work of this I dnd, written by. a competent historiographer, who had kept himself ptted, or had kept a journal of his life, and the many thrilling incidents connected with the history of the Church, or the life of a pioneer traveling preacher, could not fail to interest the Church and many of her friends, and would rescue from olbhvion many, very many incidents that are now lost, and gone forever beyond the reach of the historians
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