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James Ohio Pattie was born in 1804 in Bracken County, Kentucky, United States. He was the son of Sylvester Pattie. From Kentucky, the family moved to Missouri in 1812.
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The hunters of Kentucky, or, The trials and toils of trappers and traders, during an expedition to the Rocky Mountains, New Mexico, and California.
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Title: The hunters of Kentucky, or, The trials and toils of trappers and traders, during an expedition to the Rocky Mountains, New Mexico, and California. Author: James Ohio Pattie Publisher: Gale, Sabin Americana Description: Based on Joseph Sabin's famed bibliography, Bibliotheca Americana, Sabin Americana, 1500--1926 contains a collection of books, pamphlets, serials and other works about the Americas, from the time of their discovery to the early 1900s. Sabin Americana is rich in original accounts of discovery and exploration, pioneering and westward expansion, the U.S. Civil War and other military actions, Native Americans, slavery and abolition, religious history and more. Sabin Americana offers an up-close perspective on life in the western hemisphere, encompassing the arrival of the Europeans on the shores of North America in the late 15th century to the first decades of the 20th century. Covering a span of over 400 years in North, Central and South America as well as the Caribbean, this collection highlights the society, politics, religious beliefs, culture, contemporary opinions and momentous events of the time. It provides access to documents from an assortment of genres, sermons, political tracts, newspapers, books, pamphlets, maps, legislation, literature and more. Now for the first time, these high-quality digital scans of original works are available via print-on-demand, making them readily accessible to libraries, students, independent scholars, and readers of all ages. ++++ The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure edition identification: ++++ SourceLibrary: Huntington Library DocumentID: SABCP01669900 CollectionID: CTRG95-B1916 PublicationDate: 18470101 SourceBibCitation: Selected Americana from Sabin's Dictionary of books relating to America Notes: Purports to be an adventure of "Ben Bilson" and his son, but is actually an abridged reprint of The personal narrative of James O. Pattie, edited by Timothy Flint, Cincinnati, 1833. Collation: 100 p. ; 24 cm
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The Personal Narrative of James O. Pattie: The Adventures of a Young Man in the Southwest and California in the 1830s
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James O. Pattie wrote this historic autobiography to tell tales of his life in the Old West with a group of settlers as they traversed the North American frontier in the early 19th century. Pattie was a headstrong young man and archetypal pioneer facing many dangers inherent to such life. He would traverse the great Western plains, encounter Native Americans who were variously friendly, neutral or hostile, set up a successful sawmill business, and experience all the adventures and adversity peculiar to his era. Rather than be split into chapters or otherwise, Pattie's recollections are told in one lengthy story. However, this edition contains an introduction from the editor, who personally summarizes and notes tha major factors which shaped the author's life. Unusually for men on the frontier, Pattie expresses devotion and worry for members of his family - the death of his father and mother are a source of emotional outpouring, as the young Mr. Pattie seeks to honor both. Eventually Pattie opted to settle in Kentucky, where he finally published this diary of his life. Accessible and plain in style, it is in these pages that readers get to know the author and empathize with his nature. Although aspects are exaggerated for the sake of entertaining, the memoir on the whole offers readers a vivid and historically valuable account of life in the young United States. It is thought that Pattie died just a few years after publishing this memoir, as an outbreak of deadly disease at the time ravaged Kentucky. The death toll was particularly high in his locality; after this tragic event, there is no evidence that James O. Pattie survived.
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James Ohio Pattie
Edit ProfileEducation
Jasmes Ohio Pattie attended Augusta College and made his home for many years in the nearby town of Dover.
Career
In July 1824, near the present Omaha, James Ohio Pattie wih his father joined Silvestre Pratte's Santa Fe expedition, which reached its destination Nov. 5. During the next three years the son, sometimes in company with his father, took part in a number of hazardous trapping journeys. Early in 1828, with his father and six others, he reached Santa Catalina Mission, in Lower California. All were arrested and taken to San Diego, where, according to Pattie, they were subjected to extreme brutalities by Governor Echeandía. Here, on April 24, the elder Pattie died in prison. The son, with his companions, was released early in the following year, and in August 1830, by way of Mexico city, he arrived in Cincinnati. He is assumed to have filed a claim for damages in the Mexican capital, but a recent search (1933) of the papers in the United States Embassy there, as well as in the State Department in Washington, reveals no record of even a complaint by him. The Personal Narrative appeared in the following year, though most of the copies extant bear the date of 1833. A plagiarized version with the title, The Hunters of Kentucky, and purporting to record the adventures of one B. Bilson, was published in New York in 1847.
The original text was reprinted as the eighteenth volume (1905) of Early Western Travels, with sparse and unsatisfactory annotations by R. G. Thwaites. It was again reprinted, with scanty annotations, by M. M. Quaife, in 1930. From such knowledge as is available, the elder Pattie appears an estimable person. It is not unlikely, on the other hand, that the son was, as Bancroft characterized him, a conceited and quick-tempered boy with an exceptional capacity for making himself disagreeable. His book, an entertaining narrative of thrilling and painful adventures, has an assured place in frontier literature. It is, however, to be classed as semifiction rather than as history. On matters that can be tested by authentic records it usually proves inaccurate as to dates, names, and localities, and it is frequently erroneous, if not untruthful, as to events. Nathaniel M. Pryor, one of Pattie's companions, pronounced it mostly false. Of the later life of Pattie little is known. In 1849 he joined the gold rush and appears to have visited San Diego. At some time in the following winter he was at William Waldo's camp in the Sierra, and left there during a spell of tempestuous weather. James Ohio Pattie was never heard of again.
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The hunters of Kentucky, or, The trials and toils of trappers and traders, during an expedition to the Rocky Mountains, New Mexico, and California.
( Title: The hunters of Kentucky, or, The trials and toil...)
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The Personal Narrative of James O. Pattie: The Adventures of a Young Man in the Southwest and California in the 1830s
(James O. Pattie wrote this historic autobiography to tell...)
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The hunters of Kentucky, or, The trials and toils of trappers and traders, during an expedition to the Rocky Mountains, New Mexico, and California.
