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Pattie, James O.MareMagnum

THE PERSONAL NARRATIVE OF JAMES O. PATTIE, OF KENTUCKY, During an Expedition from St. Louis, Through the Vast Regions Between that Place and the Pacific Ocean, and Thence Back Through the City of Mexico to Vera Cruz, During Journeyings of Six Years. Edi

Facsimile of the rare Cincinnati 1833 first edition. 300 p. 8vo. Original leather grained cloth binding. Fine condition. "James Ohio Pattie was from Kentucky and he was not, in retrospect, a great mountain man. He was only marginally successful as a trapper, nearly starved to death in the wilderness several times, and was once so foolish as to drop his gun in fright in the face of an angry grizzly bear . Yet he was with the first group of mountain men to explore the Gila drainage and is forever etched in mountain man history because he left this book detailing. Pattie's Narrative remains a fascinati ng document for the modern reader. Though not always accurate as to dates and chronology, Pattie gives the reader a vivid picture of pristine Southwest New Mexico in the 1820's: the lush, riparian bos que near Socorro, where he encountered his first grizzly; the climb over the Black Range at Emory Pass and descent to Santa Rita del Cobre near present day Silver City; the descent of Sapillo Creek to the Gila River where the trappers took 30 beaver the first night; the Gila Hot Springs, now a small resort community, where Pattie soaked himself in the steamy waters and, he claims, cooked a fish! Later, downriver, he describes the river entering such a narrow canyon that they had to detour their horses and mules far to the south. The detour was arduous and they survived only by butchering one o f their horses for food. The modern reader recognizes the rugged Gila Middle Box Canyon; based on Pattie's description, it's changed but little. That first winter, Pattie's party trapped several hundr ed beaver, only to lose most of the pelts (and at least one of the trappers) to the Apaches. The next winter they had acquired nearly $20,000 worth of Gila beaver, only to have all the furs confiscate d in Santa Fe by the Spanish governor. Here Pattie commented in his diary: "The whole fruit of our long, toilsome and dangerous expedition was lost, and all my golden hopes of prosperity and comfort v anished like a dream." By 1830 Pattie was back in the Midwest, penniless, his health broken, but with a headful of experiences and the remnants of a diary that his vivid imagination sometimes over-lea pt. Fortunately for posterity, he promptly turned that diary into an invaluable narrative. Pattie, was never to profit from his book. He disappears from history about 1833, probably the victim of a cholera epidemic. These facsimiles are the most affordable way to study, own, and enjoy such rare Americana. NW29. **PRICE JUST REDUCED!

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