Journal of Francis Asbury, Volume III

Francis Asbury crossed a continent so you could have a church. This third volume of his journal captures the final decades of America's original circuit rider, a man who rode on horseback from Georgia to Maine, through wilderness and pioneer settlements, building the Methodist Church one sermon at a time. His entries reveal not just the logistics of revival but the raw physical cost: the broken bones, the brutal winters, the loneliness of the road. Yet Asbury never wavers. He records camp meetings that ignites souls, frontier towns that bloom into congregations, and the slow, exhausting work of shepherding a denomination into existence. Here is history from the saddle, written in the saddle, the diary of a man who believed that America needed saving and that he was the one to do it.