Button's Inn

by Albion W. Tourgée

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428 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1887

About the author

Albion Winegar Tourgée was an American soldier, lawyer, writer, politician, and diplomat. Wounded in the Civil War, he relocated to North Carolina afterward, where he became involved in Reconstruction activities. He served in the constitutional convention and later in the state legislature. A pioneer civil rights activist, he founded the National Citizens' Rights Association, and founded Bennett College as a normal school for freedmen in North Carolina (it has been a women's college since 1926).

Reviews

[Matthew · Rating 2 out of 5]

An odd, Romantic fiction story. Some Mystery. Some Mormonism. Some Melancholy. Definitely a product of Tourgee's Ohio Western Reserve in the 19th-century.