# The Hoosier Schoolmaster: A Story of Backwoods Life in Indiana

By Edward Eggleston.

"The Hoosier Schoolmaster: A Story of Backwoods Life in Indiana" by Edward Eggleston is a novel published in 1871. Based on the author's brother's experiences as a schoolteacher, it depicts rural Indiana life through vivid scenes of country schools, spelling bees, and frontier communities. The story weaves romance and conflict against authentic portrayals of pioneer customs, from battles between schoolmasters and unruly students to illiterate preachers and crude court proceedings, all rendered in authentic local dialect. (Summary by Project Gutenberg, written by machine.)

- Language: English
- Illustrator: Frederick Burr Opper
- Illustrator: William Edward Bloomfield Starkweather
- Subjects: Teachers -- Fiction; Indiana -- Fiction; Country homes -- Fiction

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- [Hoosier Schoolmaster](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/books/librivox/6803) by Edward Eggleston (5 h 49 min, English)

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