Crusader in Crinoline: The Life of Harriet Beecher Stowe

706 pp. Photographic and engraved plates. Opening in the beautiful airy town of Litchfield, the story follows the various members of the Beecher family through their restless stages in Boston, Hartford, and New York until the fateful trek to Cincinnati by which Dr. Lyman Beecher hoped to win the West for Christ.--jacket