Journal of a Mountain Man

<p><strong style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)><em>A first-hand account of one of America's most joyful explorers.</em></strong></p><p><br></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>As a member of Jedediah Smith's first mountain man brigade James Clyman was there when the South Pass was discovered opening the inter-mountain West to fur trappers. Traversing the American West he experienced a host of events in the untamed 1800's frontier.</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>From encountering the Donner Party to sewing Jim Bridger's ear back on after a grizzly bear attack and walking six hundred miles to Fort Atkinson Clyman journeyed twice to the Pacific before settling in Napa Valley. There he raised a family and began sharing legendary tales of the mountain men.</span></p><p><br></p><p><em style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Told with vivid description and using Clyman's historic journal entries Win Blevins brings to life a bygone era of adventure and danger in this colorful memoir.</em></p>