Young, H: Hard Knocks -

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Résumé :
Excerpt from Hard Knocks: A Life Story of the Vanishing West

N this country where blood and station count for naught, and where the race of life is open to all comers, it is for little more than a mere matter of record to say that I, Harry Young, the author, was born in Cape Vincent, New York, in 1849.

I left my home in 1863, at the age of 14 years, and, as this narrative will show, have lived in the West ever since that time. My home is now in Portland, Oregon, the metropolis of the great Northwest. When observation shows me what has been accomplished by the people of this section (to the generation of which it has been my privilege to belong), I feel a pardon able pride in the fact that it is in the midst of these people my life thus far has been spent.

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