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James Campbell
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James Campbell is the author of The Final Frontiersman and has written for Outside magazine, as well as many other publications. In 2006, he went to new Guinea and followed the footsteps of the Ghost Mountain Boys. No one had ever attempted to retrace their route. Campbell discovered a wilderness largely unchanged for more than sixty years. He lives in Wisconsin with his wife and three daughters.
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James Campbell is a specialist in U.S. history, 20th-century African American history, and South African history. He is author of Songs of Zion: The African Methodist Episcopal Church in the United States and South Africa (New York: Oxford University Press, 1995), Middle Passages: African American Journeys to Africa, 1787-2005 (New York: Penguin Press, 2006), and co-editor of Race, Nation, and Empire in American History (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2007).
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Brought up on the home farm in Greene County, Tennessee, James Campbell had but limited opportunities for acquiring an education, but he was well trained in the agricultural arts. In August, 1861, he joined the Fourteenth Tennessee Cavalry, commanded by Colonel Brownlow, son of the fighting parson, with which regiment he started across the mountains, and was captured and taken to Richmond, Virginia, where he remained in Libby Prison until 1863. Being charged with being a bridge burner, he was unable to get an exchange, and during the many months of his confinement he was wardmaster of the hospital. While ... employed he was one day approached by a Confederate officer with a proposition to join the Confederate Army. Consulting with his companions, he decided to accept the offer, realizing that there was no other chance for him to escape. Mr. Campbell was placed in charge of the little squad which was bound for Vicksburg, and as he was passing through his native county, and nearing Greenville, he said to his comrades: "We are nearing home, and ought to know more than we did when captured, and every fellow take care of himself."
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James Campbell will be reading from his book "The Final Frontiersman" (Atria Books, $25). Campbell’s first book is the much-acclaimed story of the first author’s first cousin, Heimo Korth. Chronicling Korth’s life in the Alaskan wilderness, Campbell lyrically tells the story of life in the natural world with all of its perils, hardships and joys. Korth and his wife, Edna, raised a family including two teen-aged daughters, Rhonda and Krin, as well as their daughter Coleen, whose life was tragically cut short by the very wilderness they love. For more information, check out www.jamescampbell.net.
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James Campbell was born in 1826 to William and Martha Campbell, Derry, Ireland. Campbell was the eighth child of twelve children. At the age of thirteen, Campbell boarded a ship leaving Ireland for New York City. For his first two years in the United States, Campbell followed in his father's footsteps as a carpenter. He then joined a whaling crew bound for the South Pacific where the vessel was shipwrecked. Campbell survived by clinging onto debris and floated to a nearby island.
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James Campbell was born in 1812 in Southwark (now part of Philadelphia), Pennsylvania. He studied the law, was admitted to the state bar in 1833, and began work as a lawyer. Campbell soon entered local politics and served on the city board in 1840. One year later, the governor appointed Campbell to a seat in the Philadelphia Court of Common Pleas.
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