{"product_id":"peter-cartwright-legendary-frontier-preacher-8601422962055","title":"Peter Cartwright, Legendary Frontier Preacher","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePeter Cartwright, Legendary Frontier Preacher\u003c\/strong\u003e by Bray, Robert. hardcover edition. ISBN: 8601422962055.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBelieving deeply that the gospel touched every aspect of a persons life, Peter Cartwright was a man who held fast to his principles, resulting in a life of itinerant preaching and thirty years of political quarrels with Abraham Lincoln. Peter Cartwright, Legendary Frontier Preacher is the first full-length biography of this most famous of the early nineteenth-century Methodist circuit-riding preachers.\n\nRobert Bray tells the full story of the long relationship between Cartwright and Lincoln, including their political campaigns against each other, their social antagonisms, and their radical disagreements on the Christian religion, as well as their shared views on slavery and the central fact of their being \"self-made.\"\n\nIn addition, the biography examines in close detail Cartwrights instrumental role in Methodisms bitter \"divorce\" of 1844, in which the southern conferences seceded in a remarkable prefigurement of the United States a decade later. Finally, Peter Cartwright attempts to place the man in his appropriate national context: as a potent \"man of words\" on the frontier, a self-authorizing \"legend in his own time,\" and, surprisingly, an enduring western literary figure.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"University of Illinois Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45656325980213,"sku":"ByrdShop_0252029860","price":43.85,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780252029868_e6873d89-cf6c-4a53-afd6-14c27dc362db.jpg?v=1782544073","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/peter-cartwright-legendary-frontier-preacher-8601422962055","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}