Through "Poverty's Vale" A Hardscrabble Boyhood in Upstate New York, 1832-1862

• Main Author: Conklin, Henry (auth)
• Other Authors: Tripp, Wendell (Editor)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Syracuse University Press 1975
• Subjects: History of the Americas
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Writing his full-length reminiscence in a lonely Adirondack cabin during the winter of 1891-92, Henry Conklin recounts the first thirteen years of his life on a farm in Schoharie County, his young manhood in Herkimer County, and his service in the Civil War. The story is one of a hardscrabble life,...