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(More customer reviews)Prentice Mulford's life story reads as if he were sitting right next to you. He was homespun and a great story teller. He was a humorist and journalist and the tone is very much like Mark Twain but he also very down-to-earth. You find yourself carried away by his life, raised in Sag Harbor LI as part of the great seafaring community there, and in California in the Gold Rush. I can understand why people buy his books on his philosophy which sounds equally homespun.
I bought his life story to find out more about the people of that time since I was doing local genealogy of the families and I am very pleased with it on that score.
This publication by Brownstone Books is done apparently in batches and not well. My copy was missing a complete page which I had to fill in from other sources. The backpage blurb is wrong. He lived from 1834 to 1891, and he starts his recollections with June, 1847. It was copyrighted in 1889. But the blurb says 1956 to 1972 which indicates that the publishing company never read the book.
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