Title: Timothy Flint, pioneer, missionary, author, editor, 1780-1840
Subtitle: the story of his life among the pioneers and frontiersmen in the Ohio and Mississippi Valley and in New England and the South.
Description: Timothy Flint (1780-1840) was one of the most significant literary figures in the early history of the Old Northwest. He was a minister and graduate of Harvard who went west in 1815 to carry out missionary work. For the next ten years he traveled in the Mississippi Valley, publishing in 1826 a memoir called Recollections of the Last Ten Years. In 1833 he published Biographical Memoir of Daniel Boone, which did much to develop the Boone legend. He also founded and edited the Western Monthly, a literary magazine in Cincinnati from 1827-1830.
Subjects: Frontier and pioneer life, Biography, Pioneers, Missionaries
Places: Mississippi River Valley, United States, Ohio River Valley
People: Timothy Flint (1780-1840)
Time periods: 1780-1840