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A 3 page paper which examines what “Sam Patch” by Paul E. Johnson can teach the reader about life in the 19th century. No additional sources cited.
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man who took risks and thrilled the crowd. But, most people do not know much about him because his legendary career only lasted a couple of years and he was
born and died in the first half of the 19th century. Paul E. Johnson has taken all the information available through newspapers and documents, to present the reader with the
most accurate look ever offered on the silently legendary man that was Sam Patch. The following paper examines what a reader can learn about life in the 19th century through
reading Johnsons book. Sam Patch Perhaps more than anything else, Johnsons book is about how and why Sam Patch jumped waterfalls in
relationship to the industrialism that gripped the nation. In this work we are given the experiences and the facts relating to the decisions of the powerful and how it affected
the simple individual, the working individual, in this land that had changed its focus. It was about the time that Sam Patch was born that the nation began its move
into industrialization and Sam Patch was all but born into a world where people worked in factories and mills. He was the second generation, so to speak, never having really
known life without industrialization. At the same time he was a man who reflected the dreams and ideals and hopes of his people for he was against the power possessed
by the owners and the wealthy. We note this when at one point the owners of the mills made changes to the
hours that people went home for meals. These families possessed "more than one breadwinner, and where workers went home for lunch, few wage-earning households would be unaffected. Put simply, twenty-two
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