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| #108451 in Books | Hill and Wang | 2004-06-16 | 2004-06-16 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 8.50 x.58 x5.50l,.55 | File type: PDF | 256 pages | ||0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.| Johnson has written a superb history of antebellum America|By Paul Pfefferkorn|Johnson uses Sam Patch to channel his search for Jackson's America. Johnson explores all things wherever Sam Patch leads him, from the beginning of the end of the agrarian life in New England and the pecking order from boss spinner to mill children in Pawtucket's mills, to the new moneyed, old moneye|From Publishers Weekly|Little is known of daredevil Sam Patch (1800-1829). When he was seven, Patch, his mother and siblings were working in the mills of Pawtucket, R.I. The waterfalls that powered the mills attracted working boys like Sam, who'd compete at jump
The true history of a legendary American folk hero
In the 1820s, a fellow named Sam Patch grew up in Pawtucket, Rhode Island, working there (when he wasn't drinking) as a mill hand for one of America's new textile companies. Sam made a name for himself one day by jumping seventy feet into the tumultuous waters below Pawtucket Falls. When in 1827 he repeated the stunt in Paterson, New Jersey, another mill town, an even larger audience gathered to cheer on ...
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