@article{Goodwillie2022,
       author = "Goodwillie, Christian",
       title =  {{First in the West: The Shaker Experience of Visionary Malcham Worley and His Family}},
       howpublished = "\url{https://ir.hamilton.edu/do/a901e3dd-dd5f-4256-878a-9fd556cbacb2}",
       publisher = {Richard W. Couper Press and Hamilton College Library Special Collections},
       journal = {American Communal Societies Quarterly},
       year = 2022,
       month = apr,
       volumen = {16},
       number = {2},
       pages = {84--141},
}

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Date

April 2022

Available After

2025-04-01

Description

A biographical essay on visionary Shaker Malcham Worley. Having recently completed Richard McNemar: Frontier Heretic and Shaker Apostle (forthcoming from Indiana University Press), I decided to keep going and complete a smaller look at the life of his longtime companion. The primary sources for the two were intertwined, so it was a natural by-product of the process. I hope my essay sheds further life on the inspired and complicated life of the first Shaker convert west of the Appalachians.

Type of Work

• Article

Source Title

American Communal Societies Quarterly

ISSN

1939-473X

Volume

16

Issue

2

First Page

84

Last Page

141

Publisher

Richard W. Couper Press

Hamilton College Library Special Collections

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