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| Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Greeley, Horace, 1811-1872. Recollections of a busy life. New York, J.B. Ford & Co., Boston, H.A. Brown & Co.; [etc.] 1868 (OCoLC)654476609 |
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| Named Person: | Horace Greeley |
| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Horace Greeley; Robert Dale Owen |
| OCLC Number: | 425964 |
| Notes: | Imperfect: p. xv, [17]-18, and facsimile wanting. |
| Description: | 3 p. l., [vii]-xv, [17]-624 p. front. (port.) illus., 2 pl., facsim. 23 cm. |
| Contents: | A sample of the Scotch-Irish. -- Our folks at Londonderry. -- "The times that tried men's souls". -- Rural New England fifty years ago. -- My early school-days. -- Adieu to New Hampshire. -- Westhaven. -- My apprenticeship. -- My faith. -- A year by Lake Erie. -- My first experiences in New York. -- Getting into business. -- Temperance in all things. -- Politics. -- Play-days. -- Triumph. -- Log-cabin days. -- The Tribune. -- Socialism. -- Socialistic efforts. -- Harry Clay. -- Margaret Fuller. -- Beggars and borrowers. -- Dramatic memories. -- "Old Zack". -- Congress ; Mileage. -- Congress as it was. -- Glamour. -- Lake Superior ; Mining ; Chicago ; The prairies. -- The great senators ; The Comprise of 1850. -- Libels and libel-suits. -- Europe ; The World Exposition. -- The dissolution of the Whig Party. -- The slavery controversy. -- The new era in politics. -- My farm. -- My farming. -- "Seward, Weed, and Greeley". -- Europe revisited ; Paris ; Switzerland. -- Two days in jail. -- "The Banks Congress" ; The long contest for speaker. -- Fremont ; Buchanan ; Douglas. -- A ride across the plains. -- The Rocky Mountains ; The Great Basin. -- Utah ; Nevada. -- The Sierra Nevada ; The Yosemite ; The big trees. -- The future of California. -- The presidential election of 1860. -- Secession ; How confronted. -- Our Civil War ; Actual and possible. -- Abraham Lincoln. -- Jefferson Davis. -- Authorship ; Writing history. -- My dead. -- Miscellanies. -- Literature as a vocation. -- Poets and poetry. -- Reforms and reformers. -- The grounds of protection. -- Sundry lecturing reminiscences: A day's ride in Maine ; A ride across the Alleghanies ; A night-ride across the prairies ; A winter flood in Illinois. -- Marriage and divorce: a discussion between Horace Greeley and Robert Dale Owen. |
| Responsibility: | By Horace Greeley. |
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