| Book Review | The Western Historical Quarterly, 34.1

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Book Review

Minister to the Cherokees: A Civil War Autobiography by James Anderson Slover. Edited by Barbara Cloud. (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2001. xxxii + 212 pp. Notes, bibliography, index. $47.50; £34.00.)

James Anderson Slover was eighty-three when he completed his autobiographical memoir, Minister to the Cherokees. However, it took his great-great-granddaughter, Barbara Cloud, and the University of Nebraska Press to transfer Slover's written words to this extensive, annotated memoir. The result is special. 1

Interestingly, Slover chooses to write his autobiographical musings in third person referring to himself as The Teacher; The Preacher; The Scribe; or The Homesteader. This literary style, a strict chronological ordering of the events of his life, coupled with occasional explanations as to how things worked, the grist mill or plowing, for example, yields a powerful and readable, albeit detached and rather impersonal, document. . . .

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