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John Robert Shaw: An Autobiography of Thirty Years, 1777-1807

By Shaw, John Robert

John Robert Shaw: An Autobiography of Thirty Years, 1777-1807 Memories

John Robert Shaw: An Autobiography of Thirty Years, 1777-1807

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In the summer of 1807 more than a thousand subscribers from New England to Tennessee paid for the initial printing of The Life and Travels of John Robert Shaw: A Narrative of the Life and Travels of the Well-Digger, now resident of Lexington, Kentucky, Written by Himself. Shaw had come to Rhode Island as a British redcoat to put down the colonial rebellion. Through various quirks of fate, including being taken a prisoner of war, he ended up fighting with the Americans. Shaw was an exuberant spirit whose rowdy drinking bouts and related predicaments alternated with periods of wholehearted efforts at reform. His autobiography, written while he recuperated from injuries from one of several explosions (an occupational hazard for the frontier well-digger), is an articulate and entertaining record of the Revolutionary War era.
A 1930 printing of Shaw's autobiography was rescued from the trash by an alert librarian in Kentucky in 1950. She passed the tattered copy on to journalist Oressa M. Teagarden, who became intrigued with Shaw's story and spent much of her free time over the next two decades finding out more about the ebullient American. On Teagarden's death, co-editor Jeanne Crabtree assumed the task of making Shaw's authentic and colorful view of early America available to a new generation of readers.
Product details
Edition:
illustrated
Number of Pages:
187
Release Date:
1992-04-01
Publication Date:
1992-01-31
Publisher:
Univ of Chicago on Behalf of Ohio Univ Press
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
0821410180
ISBN13:
9780821410189
Weight:
458 g
Height:
149 cm
Width:
225 cm
Thickness:
21 cm
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