Before the railroads carved through the Iowa prairie, before the abolitionist fires burned brightest across a divided nation, one man stood at the crossroads of American destiny and refused to look away. Josiah Bushnell Grinnell was not merely a witness to the turbulent birth pangs of modern America, he was one of its most passionate architects. Preacher, politician, pioneer, and tireless crusader for human freedom, Grinnell carved his name into the soul of the American Midwest with nothin...