The Log School-House on the Columbia


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'The Log School-House on the Columbia' is a semi-fictional novel about the American Settlers era by Hezekiah Butterworth. The author used information from interviews that he did with early pioneers who settled in the Rockies and on to the Columbia River to create an entirely new story that is meant to convey the relationship between the European settlers and the Native Americans during that time. Several characters that play a major part in the book are Gretchen, a German orphan girl; Mrs. Woods, who takes care of her; and Marlowe Mann, the schoolmaster who intends to assist the Native Americans by being a missionary.




In The Boyhood of Lincoln


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'In The Boyhood of Lincoln' is a novel about the fictionalized life of Abraham Lincoln's younger years, as written by Hezekiah Butterworth. In this volume, the adventures of a pioneer school-master are made to represent the early history of a newly settled country. Here, many of the Indian romances and cabin tales of the early settlers of Illinois can be found in this book, alongside pictures of the hardships and manly struggles of one who by force of early character made himself the greatest of representative Americans.




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Schooling Readers


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Schooling Readers takes up a largely unexplored genre of fiction, the common school narrative, popular between 1830 and 1890. These stories both propagate and challenge the myth of the idyllic one-room school, and reveal Americans' perceptions of and anxieties about public education, many of which still resonate today.




In the Boyhood of Lincoln


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