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- Recollections of a busy life :…
- 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