1 December 2011, 1:55 pm
...would likely be most prevalent? I've heard stories that in the "wild west" brothels were more common than churches but there were churches. Lets say there was a church in one of the famously rowdy towns of 1800's frontier America like Carson City Nevada or Tombstone AZ. What would be the denomination of the town's church/minister? Calvinist? Baptist? Quaker? Were there independent traveling preachers setting up congregations outside of any denominational structure? No garbage answers please. I ask from a genuine curiosity about American history.... Read More »