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- catalog abstract "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 above bringing hecklers under control with his fists. Finley criticized the federal government's Indian policy and his racist contemporaries, contributed to the temperance and prison reform movements, and played a key role in the 1844 division of the Methodist Episcopal church over the slavery issue. Making extensive use of letters, diaries and church and public documents, Charles C. Cole, Jr., details Finley's influence on the moral and religious development of the Ohio River area. Cole evaluates Finley's writings and focuses on his ideas. He traces the important changes in Finley's attitudes toward slavery and abolition and provides new insights into his views on politics, economics and religion. For anyone with an interest in early life and religion in the Ohio River Valley, Lion of the Forest supplies a critical but sympathetic portrait of a complex, colorful and controversial figure.".
- catalog contributor b5770585.
- catalog coverage "Ohio River Valley Biography.".
- catalog created "c1994.".
- catalog date "1994".
- catalog date "c1994.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c1994.".
- catalog description "Cole evaluates Finley's writings and focuses on his ideas. He traces the important changes in Finley's attitudes toward slavery and abolition and provides new insights into his views on politics, economics and religion. For anyone with an interest in early life and religion in the Ohio River Valley, Lion of the Forest supplies a critical but sympathetic portrait of a complex, colorful and controversial figure.".
- catalog description "Finley criticized the federal government's Indian policy and his racist contemporaries, contributed to the temperance and prison reform movements, and played a key role in the 1844 division of the Methodist Episcopal church over the slavery issue. Making extensive use of letters, diaries and church and public documents, Charles C. Cole, Jr., details Finley's influence on the moral and religious development of the Ohio River area.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references and index.".
- catalog description "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 above bringing hecklers under control with his fists.".
- catalog description "Series foreword -- Editors' preface -- Author's preface -- Chronology of James B. Finley's life -- The new market devil -- The expansion of Methodism in Ohio -- Encounter with the Wyandots -- Fight against the federal government -- Power and struggle -- Crusade for temperance -- A hero in spite of himself -- The prison years -- The occasional historian -- The last years -- Notes -- Bibliographical essay.".
- catalog extent "xv, 271 p. :".
- catalog hasFormat "Lion of the forest.".
- catalog identifier "0813118638 (alk. paper)".
- catalog isFormatOf "Lion of the forest.".
- catalog isPartOf "The Ohio River Valley series".
- catalog issued "1994".
- catalog issued "c1994.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Lexington, Ky. : University Press of Kentucky,".
- catalog relation "Lion of the forest.".
- catalog spatial "Ohio River Valley Biography.".
- catalog spatial "Ohio River Valley".
- catalog subject "287/.6/092 B 20".
- catalog subject "F518.F55 C64 1994".
- catalog subject "Finley, James B. (James Bradley), 1781-1856.".
- catalog subject "Missionaries Ohio River Valley Biography.".
- catalog subject "Pioneers Ohio River Valley History.".
- catalog subject "Social reformers Ohio River Valley Biography.".
- catalog tableOfContents "Series foreword -- Editors' preface -- Author's preface -- Chronology of James B. Finley's life -- The new market devil -- The expansion of Methodism in Ohio -- Encounter with the Wyandots -- Fight against the federal government -- Power and struggle -- Crusade for temperance -- A hero in spite of himself -- The prison years -- The occasional historian -- The last years -- Notes -- Bibliographical essay.".
- catalog title "Lion of the forest : James B. Finley, frontier reformer / Charles C. Cole, Jr.".
- catalog type "Biography. fast".
- catalog type "History. fast".
- catalog type "text".