In Culture
In retrospect, the circuit rider became a romantic figure and was featured in a number of novels in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Two of the better known novels are Edward Eggleston's The Circuit Rider. and Ernest Thompson Seton's Preacher of Cedar Mountain.
A circuit rider is also a character in the Newbery Award–winning novel for children, "Caddie Woodlawn", set in western Wisconsin in the 1860s.
During the 1970s, prior to its sign-off message Richmond, Virginia television station WWBT broadcast "Justice and The Circuit Rider", a rural preacher appearing on his mount, Justice, and presenting a brief parable using props from his saddlebag. These spots also appeared on the Richmond ABC affiliate WXEX, now operating as WRIC-TV just after the end of "Shock Theater." In these short films, the host was identified only as the Circuit Rider from Cobbs Creek, Virginia at the end of the three-minute segment. The preacher was William B. Livermon, Sr., who served several Virginia churches during his lifetime before passing away in 1992.
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