Excerpt from The First of the Hoosiers: Reminiscences of Edward Eggleston; And of That Western Life Which He, First of All Men, Celebrated in Literature and Made Famous It is not a biography, in the ordinary sense of that term, though it relates all of fact concerning the life of its subject, that a formal biography would include. It is rather a study of the man, his work, and his surroundings at various periods of his life, as these things are remembered by the author. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This 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.