Sam Patch The Famous Jumper

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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.

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Genre : History
Author : Paul E. Johnson
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
Release : 2004-06-16
File : 300 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9781429931953


Stunts Of Late Nineteenth Century New York

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Stunts of Late Nineteenth- Century New York: Aestheticised Precarity, Endangered Liveness examines the emergence of stunts in the media, politics, sport and art of New York at the turn of the twentieth century. This book investigates stunts in sport, media and politics, demonstrating how these risky performances tapped into anxieties and fantasies concerning work, freedom, gendered/ raced/ classed bodies and the commodifi cation of human life. Its case studies examine bridge jumping, extreme walking contests, stunt journalists such as Nellie Bly, and cycling feats including Annie Londonderry’s round- the- world venture. Supported by extensive archival research and Performance Studies theorisations of precarity, liveness and surrogation, Smith theorises an under- examined form which is still prevalent in art, politics and commerce, to show what stunts reveal about value, risk and human life. Suitable for scholars and practitioners across a range of subjects, from Performance Studies to gender studies, to media studies, Stunts of Late Nineteenth- Century New York explores how stunts turned everyday precarity into a spectacle.

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Genre : Art
Author : Kirstin Smith
Publisher : Routledge
Release : 2019-08-19
File : 328 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9780429632273


Random Recollections

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Genre : Connecticut
Author : Henry Brewster Stanton
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Release : 1886
File : 170 Pages
ISBN-13 : UOM:39015030743069


The Life And Adventures Of Prof Robert Emmet Odlum

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Genre : Swimming
Author : Catherine Odlum
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Release : 1885
File : 220 Pages
ISBN-13 : UCAL:$B513088


The Tourist S Guide Through The Empire State

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Genre : New York (State)
Author : S. S. Colt
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Release : 1871
File : 348 Pages
ISBN-13 : PRNC:32101072316886


New York State Illustrated Or The Tourist S Guide Through The Empire State

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Genre : New York (State)
Author : Mrs. S. S. Colt
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Release : 1872
File : 324 Pages
ISBN-13 : WISC:89073037087


American History

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Genre : United States
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Release : 2007
File : 470 Pages
ISBN-13 : STANFORD:36105123420874


An American Glossary

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Genre : Americanisms
Author : Richard Hopwood Thornton
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Release : 1962
File : 446 Pages
ISBN-13 : UOM:39015042108624


Rochester

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Genre : Art museums
Author : Jenny Marsh Parker
Publisher : Rochester, N.Y. : Scrantom, Wetmore
Release : 1884
File : 538 Pages
ISBN-13 : PSU:000013552701


Michigan School Moderator

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Release : 1892
File : 652 Pages
ISBN-13 : UOM:39015086611731