Excerpt from From the Plains to the PulpitI was born in Ouachita County, Arkansas, about ten miles west of Camden, October 14, 1855. Camden at that time was the trading center of all Southern Arkansas, because many boats came up the Ouachita from New Orleans. My father at that time was run ning a large farm, and also owned and was running a large saddle shop, of which he was the boss work man and salesman, but had in his employment a num ber of good workmen.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.