Edward King was an American author and journalist born in Middlefield, Massachusetts

Middlefield, Massachusetts

Middlefield is a town in Hampshire County, Massachusetts, United States. The population was 542 at the 2000 census. It is part of the Springfield, Massachusetts Metropolitan Statistical Area.-Geography:...

. His 1875 travel memoir The Great South is an important historical document with extensive descriptions of African American church music and other subjects. Each section of The Great South was originally published in an issue of Scribner's Magazine

Scribner's Magazine

Scribner's Magazine was an American periodical published by the publishing house of Charles Scribner's Sons from January 1887 to May 1939. Scribner's Magazine was the second magazine out of the "Scribner's" firm, after the publication of Scribner's Monthly...

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For a time he was a correspondent in Paris on behalf of American periodicals. During the Russo-Turkish War

Russo-Turkish War

Russo-Turkish War may refer to one of the following conflicts between Imperial Russia and the Ottoman Empire:*Russo-Turkish War *Russo-Turkish War *Russo-Turkish War *Pruth River Campaign...

he was a correspondent in the Balkans with the Russian army.

Publications

• My Paris: French Character Sketches (1868)
• Kentucky's Love; or, Roughing it Around Paris (1873)
• The Great South: A Record of Journeys in Louisiana, Texas, the Indian Territory, Missouri, Arkansas, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, Florida, South Carolina, North Carolina, Kentucky, Tennessee, Virginia, West Virginia, and Maryland (1875)
• French Political Leaders (1876)
• Echoes from the Orient: with miscellaneous poems (1880)
• The Great Savage; a novel (1883)
• Europe in Storm and Calm: Twenty Years' Experiences and Reminiscences of an American Journalist (1885)
• The Golden Spike; a fantasy in prose (1886)
• A Venetian Lover (1887)
• Texas: 1874 (?)
• Joseph Zalmonah : a novel (1894)
• Under the red flag; or, The adventures of two American boys in the days of the commune (1895)

External links

• Works by or about Edward King at Internet Archive
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• The Great South, full text (HTML)