Title: The Prairie Schooner
Subtitle: A Story of the Black Hawk War
First published: 1900
Description: Rev. William Eleazar Barton (1861-1930) was born in Sublette, Illinois. As a minister, he served in parishes in Tennessee, Ohio, and Massachusetts, and finally in Oak Park, Illinois. He became one of the early twentieth century’s most prominent writers and lecturers on the life of Abraham Lincoln.