1. Creator/Author:
  2. Owen, Robert Dale, (11)

Recollections of a busy life : including reminiscences of American politics and politicians, from the opening of the Missouri contest to the downfall of slavery ; to which are added miscellanies ; also, a discussion with Robert Dale Owen of the law of divorce /

Authors:
Owen, Robert Dale, Greeley, Horace,
Other Authors:
Owen, Robert Dale, 1801-1877.
Item ID:
71200908406375
Publisher:
New York : J.B. Ford & Co. ; Boston : H.A. Brown & Co. ; San Francisco : F. Dewing & Co. ; Cincinnati : C.F. Vent & Co., 1868 (Cambridge : Welch, Bigelow, & Co.)
Call Number:
E415.9.G8 G808
Physical Description:
xv, 624 p., [3] leaves of plates : ill., facsims., ports. ; 23 cm.
Topic:
Newspaper editors -- United States -- Biography.
Statesmen -- United States -- Biography.
Greeley, Horace, 1811-1872.
United States -- Politics and government -- 1845-1861.
United States -- Politics and government -- 1861-1865.
United States -- Politics and government -- 1865-1877.
Note:
CLICK ON WEB ADDRESS TO REACH THIS DOCUMENT.; Includes bibliographical references and index.; 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.
OCLC Number:
ocm00425964
Holding Institution:
Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection, Allen County Public Library, Fort Wayne, Indiana
Available for Viewing:
By appointment only
Category:
Books & Pamphlets