An Original Belle

Complete and unabridged, with 54 full-page plates by George Inness, George Catlin and Albert Bierstadt. New York, 1863: a girl who takes nothing on faith, three men in love with her, and the Draft Riots — five days in which the city tore itself apart and the mob hunted black New Yorkers through the streets. Roe was a Presbyterian minister and an army chaplain in the Civil War who turned novelist a...