James Clyman

Pioneer and explorer. Original member 0f Gen.William H.Ashleys 2nd expedition of 1823 into the Rocky Mountains. Was a silent pilot for trains going west during the 1840,s emigration and followed Lansford Hastings across fremonts route in 1846 which would become the infamous " Hastings Cutoff".

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James Clyman (February 1, 1792 – December 27, 1881), also known as Jim Clyman, was a mountain man and an explorer and guide in the American Far West.

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.

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