Forty Years of Pioneer Life PDF Download

Author: John Mason Peck
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Category : Baptists
Languages : en
Pages : 464

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Author: John Mason Peck
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Category : Baptists
Languages : en
Pages : 384

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Author: Rufus Babcock
Publisher: Patterson Press
ISBN: 1409770176
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 364

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Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.

Author: John Mason Peck
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ISBN: 9783337726249
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Languages : en
Pages : 368

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Author: Rufus Babcock
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ISBN: 9780809397075
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 453

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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 edit and publish them. Babcock completed this task in 1864, and de­posited the journals in the Mercantile Library in St. Louis, where they were misplaced and irretrievably lost during the Civil War. Peck founded numerous educational and religious organiza­tions, in part because he believed that they would provide the foundation for the new civilization and the basis for the fulfillment of American destiny in the world. The Memoir offers perceptive accounts of the economy and politics of the formation of religious and secular organizations on the frontier. The book gives fasci­nating reports on the development of institutions in a period of unprecedented social change. Paul Harrison, the current editor, has written a full introduc­tion and interpretation of the life and work of John Mason Peck. He includes in his Introduction many extensive quotations from Peck’s other works, the material of which is not available in the Memoir itself. This new edition makes available again a book of great im­portance to sociologists, theologians, and historians.

Author: RUFUS. BABCOCK
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ISBN: 9781033605004
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Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Author: John Mason 1789-1858 Peck
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ISBN: 9781362532873
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 386

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Author: Rufus Babcock
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ISBN: 9781331869504
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 374

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Excerpt from Forty Years of Pioneer Life: Memoir of John Mason Peck, D. D., Edited From His Journals and Correspondence No compiler of a biography could desire to be favored with more abundant and reliable materials. They consist of a very extensive correspondence from the year 1808 to that of Dr. Peck's death, covering full fifty years of his eventful life. Then in addition to these well-arranged letters, which a thousand hands have contributed, with the substance of his more important replies, there are his journals for almost this entire period, filling fifty-three volumes, some few of them small and portable for his convenience in traveling, but most of them large, either folios or quartos of some hundreds of pages each, full of all facts and incidents which his inquisitive and almost ubiquitous spirit of research brought under his observation. The superabundance of these materials has indeed proved the principal embarrassment in this compilation. They are ample, and by Dr. Peck himself were designed for a more full and extended memoir of his life and times than it seemed advisable to the publishers now to send forth. The embarrassment and perplexity of deciding what to reject entirely, and what to condense, and to what extent, has been the chief difficulty, and is the very point where most fault is likely to be found with this volume. Many readers of it will no doubt fail to find some of the things they had looked for with fondest expectation, and which, in their partial judgment, would have been more interesting than other things which arc here preserved. Let all such charitably remember how many there are of different tastes, judgments, and personal predilections, and at least pardon, if they do not fully approve, the earnest endeavor here made wisely to compromise conflicting claims. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Author: John Mason Peck
Publisher: Nabu Press
ISBN: 9781293644584
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Languages : en
Pages : 372

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This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book.

Author: John Mason PECK
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Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 372

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