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_aPearson, C. H. _q(Charles Henry), _d1824-1906 |
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| 245 | 1 | 0 | _aOn the frontier |
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_aSalt Lake City, UT : _bProject Gutenberg, _c2025 |
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| 500 | _aRelease date is 2025-10-29 | ||
| 520 | _a"On the frontier" by C. H. Pearson is a collection of frontier sketches and moral tales written in the mid-19th century. Through episodic, first-person scenes from the Upper Mississippi and Minnesota prairies, a New England clergyman-narrator observes hardship, danger, and neighborly generosity while pressing the claims of faith amid a raw, fast-forming society. The opening of this work moves through vivid vignettes: a tense night on a crowded Mississippi steamer ends harmlessly after a key mix-up; a boy named Judson freezes on the prairie, prompting the narrator’s pastoral visit and planting seeds for gospel work in a bereaved community; and a comic, perilous ox-team run for lumber careens through runaway cattle, broken gear, fog, and unexpected help. These experiences lead to a permanent ministry in a new settlement, where a grim, anti-religious “aunt Flora” is quietly softened, reads Scripture alone one Sunday, and soon dies rejoicing, having been reached by childhood Bible echoes. A barefoot bridegroom’s Western wedding brings a river swim on horseback, a tender, dying mother, a steadfast suitor, and a Millerite father whose end-times fervor colors the feast and even his reading of Nahum. A brief lyric mourns a child’s grave, and a final sketch begins with a wary walk beside a desperate, fever-worn stranger who unburdens a story of lost love, faltering faith, and aimless wandering in the West. (This is an automatically generated summary.) | ||
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_pOriginally published: _cBoston: Massachusetts Sabbath School Society, 1864 |
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| 653 | _aSunday school literature | ||
| 653 | _aFrontier and pioneer life -- United States -- Juvenile fiction | ||
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