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Title: The Adventures of Two Alabama Boys
Author: H. J. Crumpton and Washington Bryan Crumpton
Release Date: February 2, 2015 [eBook #48142]
Language: English
Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1
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Dedication
Foreword.
Part One
Part Two
Chapter I
Chapter Two
Chapter Three
Chapter Four
Chapter Five
Chapter Six
Part Three
Introduction
Preface to Letters of the Second Trip
Chapter II
Chapter Three
THE ADVENTURES OF
TWO ALABAMA BOYS
W. B. CRUMPTON H. J. CRUMPTON
"The Boys" as they looked then
The Adventures of Two
Alabama Boys
In Three Sections
By H. J. and W. B. Crumpton
Part One
The Adventures of Dr. H. J. Crumpton, of
Piedmont, California, in his efforts to reach
the Gold Fields in 1849
Part Two
The Adventures of Rev. W. B. Crumpton, going
to and returning from California, including his
Lecture, "The Original Tramp, or How a Boy
Got through the Lines to the Confederacy"
Part Three
To California and Back after a Lapse of
Forty Years
Montgomery, Ala.
The Paragon Press
1912
Copyright 1912 by W. B. Crumpton
Printed at the Paragon Press
Dedication
We dedicate the little booklet to our children. Maybe others will be interested also. We are certain there are important lessons here for young people, who are in earnest. For the frivolous and thoughtless there is nothing.
"The Boys."
Foreword.
THE ADVENTURES OF TWO ALABAMA BOYS was prepared some years ago with the view of putting it in book form; but "The Boys" have been so very busy the publication has been delayed.
SECTION ONE contains the adventures of Dr. H. J. Crumpton, a native of Wilcox county, but since '49 a citizen of California, now residing on a beautiful spot in Piedmont, a suburb of the city of Oakland.
These incidents which he relates, his baby brother, the writer of these lines, heard when he was a scrap of a boy. They made a profound impression on his youthful mind, and he has ever cherished the hope that some day he might see them in print. They were prepared at my earnest solicitation. I feel sure it was no easy task to dig up from memory almost forgotten incidents and put them in shape for the reader. At this writing, though he is advanced in years, past eighty-four, the good wife writes: "He is smart and active as ever—walks fifteen miles and it doesn't feaze him."
One of the most noted buildings in San Francisco is that of the Society of California Pioneers, of which Society he is an honored member and a Vice-President. His opinion of politics one can discover by a letter to the writer. He says: "I am forced to the conclusion, after serving in the Legislature of my adopted State several terms and in a local municipality, that politics is a filthy pool." An opinion shared by a good many others. Some are said to be born politicians; but I am sure none were born in the Crumpton family. Every one of the name I have ever known, felt great interest