The Burned-over District

The Burned-over District

Author: Whitney R. Cross

Publisher: Cornell University Press

Published: 2015-05-15

Total Pages: 406

ISBN-13: 080147700X

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During the first half of the nineteenth century the wooded hills and the valleys of western New York State were swept by fires of the spirit. The fervent religiosity of the region caused historians to call it the "burned-over district."