Name: sam patch, the famous jumper (en Inglés)
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Author: Johnson, Paul E.
ISBN: 9780809083886

portada sam patch, the famous jumper (en Inglés)

Formato

Libro Físico

Autor

Paul E. Johnson

Editorial

Hill & Wang

Idioma

Inglés

N° páginas

256

Encuadernación

Tapa Blanda

Dimensiones

20.8 x 14.0 x 2.0 cm

Peso

0.23 kg.

ISBN

9780809083886

ISBN13

9780809083886

Categorías

Estados unidos de américa
Siglo xix - c. 1800-c. 1899
Biografías de aventureros y exploradores
Historia de américa
Historia social y cultural

sam patch, the famous jumper (en Inglés)

Paul E. Johnson (Autor) · Hill & Wang · Tapa Blanda

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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 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. The distinguished social historian Paul E. Johnson 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 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. In his shrewd and powerful analysis, Johnson casts new light on aspects of American society that we may have overlooked or underestimated. This is innovative American history at its best.