JAMES CLYMAN, FRONTIERSMAN. Adventures of a Trapper and Covered Wagon Emigrant as told in His Own Reminiscences and Diaries.
by Camp, Charles L. Ed., James Clyman
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- Hardcover
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San Francisco: California Historical Society, 1928. Hardcover. Very Good. Blue cloth gilt titles. Very good, with 2 faint smal round water stains on the front endpapers and a small section where the pastedown has bubbled. Some soiling to the covers.fraying to to edge of spine. 247 pp plus index (4 pages). Clyman was a guide, trapper and 'mountain man' from the early 1820s until 1848, when he settled in California's Napa Valley and lived out his days as a prosperous farmer. He was one of the first white men to traverse South Pass (in 1826), and was a frequent companion of the likes of John Charles Fremont, Jedediah Smith and Thomas Fitzpatrick. This text of his diaries was originally published in installments in the California Historical Society Quarterly from 1925 to 1927, and issued in book form by the Society in 1928, in a small edition of 300 copies Howes calls this 'One of the most trustworthy narratives of the far west, for the period 1842-6; the only Oregon overland journal of 1844' -- Howes C81. Cowan (II) p.132. Graff 769. Mattes 102 (5 Star). Zamorano 80, #19
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- Title
- JAMES CLYMAN, FRONTIERSMAN. Adventures of a Trapper and Covered Wagon Emigrant as told in His Own Reminiscences and Diaries.
- Author
- Camp, Charles L. Ed., James Clyman
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- California Historical Society
- Place of Publication
- San Francisco
- Date Published
- 1928
- Keywords
- EXPLORATION FUR TRADE/ MOUNTAIN MEN OVERLAND TRAVEL
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