James Clyman, American Frontiersman, 1792-1881: The Adventures of a Trapper and Covered Wagon Emigrant as Told in His Own Reminiscences and Diaries (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from James Clyman, American Frontiersman, 1792-1881: The Adventures of a Trapper and Covered Wagon Emigrant as Told in His Own Reminiscences and DiariesBoone and the Fenimore Cooper Leatherstockings, and has only lately become associated with the cowboy and the wild, two-gun West emer Of fiction and melodrama. The wraiths of legend already begin to veil his dramatic exploits, and his characteristics and peculiarities in modern writings are made to fit the demands of tradition and the scenario.SO our rough, trapper chivalry is perhaps in the way Of becoming as mythical as that of King Arthur and his Knights Of the Round Table Of which it may some day be made a counterpart. Sober history has, however, been busy with these western Chevaliers, certainly with no conscious effort to detract from the romance Of their exploits but to discover the significance of their achievements in the Wide field of western expansion and the march of empire to the Pacific.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.