Excerpt from The Gentleman From EverywhereThat same night the boom broke, and allowed all the savings of our family invested in logs, cut by my father and his lumbermen, to ¿oat down the river and be lost in the sea.Thus storm, ¿ood, calamity and sorrow, far in advance heralded the future of myself, the fourth son of a fourth son who, on that Sunday, in the dog-days of 1841, reluctantly came into this world.About the PublisherForgotten Books p...
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