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Very Good in Very Good jacket. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1981. Square and unmarked, showing some light signs of reader's use and handling. Quareter cloth binding. Map endpapers. 325pp. Unclipped dust jacket is a bit shelf rubbed, now in a new mylar cover. Fletcher's investigation into the life of "Chuckawalla Bill, " Bill Simmons. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo-8"-9" Tall.
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Edition:
First Edition [stated], presumed first printing
Publisher:
Alfred A. Knopf
Published:
1981
Language:
English
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17896128128
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Very good in Good jacket. [16], 325, [11] pages. Endpaper map. Map. Illustrations. DJ has some wear and soiling. The discovery in a Nevada desert cave of what appeared to be a man's total belongings inspired this carefully researched account of a man who was a soldier, a prospector, and a wanderer. Colin Fletcher (14 March 1922-12 June 2007) was a pioneering backpacker and writer. In 1963, Fletcher walked the length of that portion of Grand Canyon contained within the 1963 boundaries of Grand Canyon National Park. Although his route spans only a about one-third the length of Grand Canyon, Fletcher was only the second person to complete this section and the first to accomplish the feat "in one go"-as chronicled in his best-selling 1968 memoir The Man Who Walked Through Time. Fletcher obtained the route information critical for successfully completing his epic trip from the godfather of Grand Canyon hiking, Harvey Butchart, who completed the distance barely ahead of Fletcher the same year-having hiked it one section at a time over 17 years. Through his influential hiker's guide, The Complete Walker, he became a kind of "spiritual godfather" of the wilderness backpacking movement. This book became the definitive work and was christened "the Hiker's Bible" by Field & Stream magazine. In 1981, he published The Man From the Cave, which relates how, after finding a trunk and a few belongings abandoned by someone in a desert cave in Nevada, he spent years piecing together the life story of "Trunkman." As he pieced together the mystery of the man's life, Fletcher saw in it a discovery and reflection of himself. Anthony William Simmons, also known as Simon but more famously as "Chuckawalla Bill, " fixed up a little cabin and lived there from around 1932 to 1936. Born on August 2nd, 1875, in Pennsylvania, he served in the U.S. Army during the Spanish-American War and later in with the British Army in World War I. He came out west after his military days and lived a transient life for a time during the Great Depression. A woman named Grace Mazeris lived with him there as well. Famed backpacker Colin Fletcher found a trunk of Simon's belongings in a cave along the Colorado River just south of Las Vegas. Fletcher wrote about Simmons and his adventures by tracing his journeys in the book "The Man from the Cave." Who originally built the cabin is not known. Derived from a Kirkus review: Fletcher was hiking along the Colorado fiver one day in 1968 when he came across an old trunk, then a cave which its owner had apparently inhabited years earlier (1916, as it turned out). Curious about "Trunkman, " Fletcher published an article asking for information--and was contacted by an 80-year-old woman who had once lived in the desert with a man she was sure was Trunkman. From colorful Grace Mazeris' vivid memories Fletcher went on to track clown her Bill Simmons in the National Archives, in Simmons' Pennsylvania home town where a few relatives still remembered Uncle Bill, and in various desert towns where old-timers spoke of the prospector/cook/desert rat/great guy whom they had known as Chuckawalla Bill. Fletcher traces his own near-obsessive search for the independent wanderer with whom he increasingly identified, then switches to a biography he was then able to piece together from oldsters' recollections, records of Simmons off-and-on military service from the Spanish-American War to World War I, and other bits and pieces. Simmons' identity as Trunkman is never absolutely proven but all the evidence supports Fletcher's gut feeling. Fletcher attempts to place the life in a general historical frame. His strong, more concentrated interest in old Bill has a way of getting to his readers--who may also, as Fletcher does, stop every now and then to question the point of it all.