Edward Eggleston’s The Hoosier School-boy draws on the author’s experience of the rough-and-tumble one-room schools of rural Indiana to paint a vivid and unsentimental portrait of frontier education in the nineteenth century. Young Jack Dudley must win the respect of his classmates and teacher through quiet determination and dignity.
Eggleston writes with humour and authenticity about a world where learning was hard-won and character was forged in the schoolyard as much as the classroom. Download the free EPUB for this honest and entertaining slice of American educational and frontier history.