George Cary Eggleston recalls the provincial Indiana country of his youth, with its rough roads, fierce Americanism and limitless hospitality, and then the Virginia plantation life that drew him South. He served the Confederacy through the Civil War, and afterwards made his way as a journalist, editor and novelist in New York, bargaining with magazine editors and newspaper owners.
A genial memoir that spans the old West, the war and the rise of American journalism. Download the free EPUB.