James Clyman

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James or Jim Clyman (1792 – 1881) 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 father started to do a lot of migrating around when Clyman was 15, moving from Virginia to Pennsylvania, and then to Ohio. In 1811, his family decided to stay in Stark County, Ohio. In 1812, Clyman became a ranger to fight the Shawnee Indians. After fighting the Indians, he decided to become a farmer in Indiana, where he also traded with local Indians. By 1821, he was a surveyor working toward the Vermillion River. He was hired by a son of Alexander Hamilton, who was running government surveys, to make travels along the Sangamon River.

While collecting his pay in Saint Louis in 1823, he met William H. Ashley, and joined Ashley's 1823 expedition. Clyman the mountain man was born.

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