the jump of fame Sam Patch, the Famous Jumper
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Word Count
64,000 words, Guess
Page Count
256 pages
Physical Format
Paperback
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL7974537M
- ISBN-139780809083886
- ISBN-100809083884
- OCLC Control Number56571071
- OCLC Control Number51290402
and 4 more
- OCLC Control Numbersampatchfamousju0000john
- Library of Congress Control Number2002191306
- Goodreads47971
- LibraryThing21499
Classifications
- LCC
Description
"In the 1820s, there was a fellow named Sam Patch who worked (when he wasn't drinking) in Pawtucket, Rhode Island, as a mill hand for one of America's new textile companies. He made a name for himself one day by jumping nearly one hundred 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 the daredevil they would call the "Jersey Jumper." Inevitably, he went to Niagara Falls, where in 1829 he jumped not once but twice in front of thousands who had paid for a good view." "Paul E. Johnson here gives this deceptively simple story all its deserved richness, revealing in its characters and social settings a virtual microcosm of Jacksonian America. He also relates the real jumper to the mythic Sam Patch, a folk hero who turned up as a daring moral hero in the works of Hawthorne and Melville, in London plays and pantomimes, and in the spotlight with Davy Crockett - a Sam Patch who became the namesake of Andrew Jackson's favorite horse."--BOOK JACKET.
First Sentence
Sam Patch first saw Pawtucket in 1807, when he was seven years old.
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