James Clyman, American Frontiersman, 1792-1881: The Adventures Of A Trapper.....

Description: Full Title: James Clyman, American Frontiersman, 1792-1881: The Adventures Of A Trapper And Covered Wagon Emigrant As Told In His Own Reminiscences And Diaries Condition Continued : There is minimal wear on the covers, a little bumping/creasing at the front and rear bottom corners (no rubbing at either), a speck-sized spot of rub-through at the top right-hand corner, a few light creases on the spine, and a small tear and bit of loss at the bottom edge of the spine (see second photo). All six edges (top, bottom, and middle) are free of wear. I regard the binding as very solid. I turned over every page in the book. I didn't see any cracks. There aren't any at the junctures between the inside covers and front and rear end papers. The pages are nicely tight. The blank first front end paper has a good amount of spotting/foxing, though it's on the light side. It's verso and the blank second end paper, front and back, have just a little bit of spotting and it is very light. Same with the California Historical Society, Special Publication No. 3 page, and with the frontispiece page and the title page, just a very small amount of light, receded, spotting. As I scroll now through the pages of the book I'm not picking up spotting. However, when I turned over every page slowly, some did have a few spots, very light, and always on the white margin of the page. The great majority of the pages of text have no spotting. I would describe the pages as being in excellent condition. If this book was read it was read with conscious care. There are three illustrations, the frontispiece ( a tipped-in sepia-tone photograph of Clyman), a facsimile of a page in Clyman's diary of 1845, and a portrait of Hannah Clyman. There are three maps: 1) a Route of the South Pass Expedition, 2) The Oregon-California Trail in 1845, and 3) The Hasting's Cut-Off in 1846. This last map is a fold-out. It has a neat thin vertical crease next to one of the two normal folds (to my eye having no effect on the superior quality of the map's condition). It is otherwise in perfect condition. Perfect is the way I would describe the condition of the other two maps. They are all on a cellophane-like paper. There is a thin broken line of spotting down the white margins of the two pages the foldout map lies between. Also on the verso of both of these pages. The portrait of Hannah Mecombs Clyman has some very light spotting on parts of the white semi-glossy paper and there is a decent amount on the text pages preceding and following the photograph. There was no spotting/foxing on any of the maps and none on the text pages on either side of the other two maps. Here is something quite positive to take note of: in turning over every page I didn't see any instances of soiling. Also, I didn't see any instances of creasing or of turned-down corners. However, the bump to the bottom edge of the rear cover created a semi-crease at the very tip of the bottom corners of perhaps 75 pages. It is very inconspicuous. Finally, there are no markings or attachments in this book. And there are no names or any kind of writing to be found anywhere. The Arthur H. Clark Company, Copyright California Historical Society, Special Publication No. 3, Cleveland, 1928. Hardcover. First Edition in book form (text first printed in the California Historical Society in installments from June 1925 to March 1927). A ' limited edition' (Charles L. Camp states in the introduction to the 1960 edition that only 330 copies of the 1928 Limited edition were printed). There have been 2 auction sales since 2000. $632.00 (inflation-adjusted ($875.00) in 2003, and $431.00 ($531.00 inflation-adjusted) in 2006. There was also a copy signed by the editor that was offered at auction with a price range of $1,000.00 to $1,500.00 in 2007. It didn't sell. James Clyman was born on a farm that belonged to George Washington in Fauquier County, Virginia, in 1792. Clyman's family started to migrate from place to place when Clyman was 15, moving from Virginia to Pennsylvania, and then to Ohio. In 1811, his family decided to settle in Stark County, Ohio. In 1812, Clyman became a ranger to fight the Shawnee Indians in the War of 1812. After the war, he took up farming in Indiana, where he also traded with local Indians. In 1821, he became a surveyor working near the Little Vermilion River in Illinois. He was hired by a son of Alexander Hamilton, who was running government surveys, to make surveys along the Sangamon River.While collecting his pay in Saint Louis in 1823, he met William H. Ashley, and joined Ashley's 1823 expedition.James Clyman was with Ashley's men from 1823 to 1827. He fought in the Arikara War in 1823. As a member of Ashley's expedition, Clyman wrote one of the two accounts detailing Hugh Glass's mauling by grizzly bear. Clyman also traveled with Jedediah Smith, whose scalp and ear he sewed back on following a savage grizzly bear mauling, and Thomas Fitzpatrick in the discovery of the South Pass. He also was a member of the party of four that paddled around the Great Salt Lake and put to rest the myth of the Buenaventura River.After his explorations, he bought a farm, near Danville, Vermilion County, Illinois and set up a store there. Then, the Blackhawk War broke out and Clyman joined the fight.After the war, he traveled back West and crossed the Great Salt Lake Desert and the Sierra Nevada. On his way back, he encountered the Donner-Reed Party and accompanying parties and advised them to avoid the shortcut and remain on the regular route. They did not heed his warning and ended up resorting to cannibalism after becoming stranded and trapped by an early blizzard in the Sierra Nevada.'

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