Five Years in the Alleghanies

A memoir of itinerant religious work among remote mountain communities, recounting long rides, house-to-house distribution of tracts and Bibles, and services held in rough log churches. The narrator describes sparse settlements where many lack books or regular preaching, hospitable but impoverished families, the practical hardships of travel and lodging, and encounters with a variety of local characters. Episodes of sermons, revival meetings, conversions, and occasional conflict illustrate the social and spiritual effects of bringing religious literature and organized worship to isolated frontier settlements.