{"product_id":"9780252090592","title":"Peter Cartwright, Legendary Frontier Preacher","description":"Believing deeply that the gospel touched every aspect of a person's 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. \u003ci\u003ePeter Cartwright, Legendary Frontier Preacher\u003c\/i\u003e is the first full-length biography of this most famous of the early nineteenth-century Methodist circuit-riding preachers.\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e Robert 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.\"\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e In addition, the biography examines in close detail Cartwright's instrumental role in Methodism's bitter \"divorce\" of 1844, in which the southern conferences seceded in a remarkable prefigurement of the United States a decade later. Finally, \u003ci\u003ePeter Cartwright\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e  ","brand":"University of Illinois Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47120149577968,"sku":"9780252090592","price":19.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780252090592_p0.jpg?v=1763680815","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780252090592","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}