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Memoirs of Orange Jacobs

Orange Jacobs · 1908 · Scanned text · Free in the US

68,380 words · about 4 h 47 min to read

Period artwork: Interior of the Bodleian Library, 1845
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Free in the US: this text is in the public domain in the United States; it may still be in copyright elsewhere.

Licence: PD · Library of Congress states the book is in the public domain and free to use and reuse (https://data.labs.loc.gov/digitized-books/README.html); published 1908, public domain asserted for the US only · Library of Congress, Selected Digitized Books (https://www.loc.gov/item/17019093); text via the Common Pile (CC BY 4.0 compilation, per-document rights preserved)

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Author
Orange Jacobs
Language
English
Published
1908
Length
68,380 words · about 4 h 47 min
Sections
3 reader sections
Text
Scanned text, read from page scans by OCR; may contain errors
Rights
Public domain in the United States

 

Contents (3)
  1. Dedication under 1 min
  2. Contents under 1 min
  3. Introduction about 4 h 47 min
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Dedication

To the Pioneers of the State of Washington, whose privations nobly borne, whose heroic labors timely performed, and whose patriotic devotion to the Republic, gave Washington as a star of constantly increasing brilliancy to the Union — this book is gratefully dedicated.

Contents

I. My Autobiography.

II. Incidents in crossing the Plains in 1852.

III. Pen sketches of events, amusing, interesting and instructive of a Pioneer's life on the Pacific Coast, extending over fifty-six years.

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