Sketches of Western Methodism

From the author's preface:

Our book explains itself, so far as the object we had in view in getting it up is concerned.

To supply a desideratum in the history of western Methodism, at least, so far as taking the incipient steps in that work is concerned, has prompted our endeavors. We have been at a great deal of labor in furnishing our readers with memorials of the past, connected with the lives of our early itinerant preachers, and collateral incidents in the history of the west, and we hop...