The Hoosier Schoolmaster: A Story of Backwoods Life in Indiana

This is a novel of 19th-century American rural life and the use of the local dialect in Indiana.

Edward Eggleston (December 10, 1837 - September 3, 1902) was an American historian and novelist.

Eggleston was born in Vevay, Indiana, to Joseph Cary Eggleston and Mary Jane Craig. The author George Cary Eggleston was his brother. As a child, he was too ill to regularly attend school, so his education was primarily provided by his father. He was ordained as a Methodist minister in 1856. He wrote ...