THERE'S NO MISTAKE IN SAM PATCH

About the Book

The Industrial Revolution began in America in Pawtucket, Rhode Island at the Slater Mill in 1793 where water power was first harnessed for factory work , and where Sam Patch went to work as a child early in the 19th Century. Very little is known of the real man, except that he began leaping from the roof of the mill into the Blackstone River and after that there was no stopping him as he jumped from ships’ masts, bridges, and over cataracts, including Niagara Falls. This novel places him at a time of early American expansion to the West, when the Erie Canal first opened, and imagines his life in the mills, his heroic dreams of wealth and fame, his love for a Native American woman, and his inexorable rush to an early and spectacular death.

About the Author

David Tinling is a mind-body physician who lives in Vermont teaching workshops on enhancing creativity. He writes poetry and fiction and makes conceptual art.