The Circuit Preacher chronicles: Shanghaiing up a flock

Published: Nov. 5, 2019, 2 p.m.

When trying to minister to the spiritual needs of a crowd of hard-sinning miners and sailors, it was sometimes necessary to resort to unorthodox tactics — tactics not often seen among men of the cloth in more civilized times. (Oregon Territory, 1850s) (For text and pictures, see http://offbeatoregon.com/1603b.circuit-preachers-shanghai-flock-382.html)