The Young Manhood of Dave Chamlee coming-of-age story of David Samuel Chamlee, born in
1857, told by his grandson (my father) in a Humanities term paper written while attending
Claremont Men’s College in the 1950s.
The story begins with Dave Chamlee’s boyhood on a
homestead in Tennessee, his travels as a young man to work on the docks of the
Mississippi River and on to his years as a working cowboy in Texas. It
concludes with his arrival in California where he spent the remainder of his
days.
The text is accompanied by research notes supported by
public records and census data, a map and photographs from the family archive.
The Young Manhood of Dave Chamlee is
letterpress printed with hand set Centaur and Arrighi, Massey Initials and
ornaments on handmade Khadi paper. The map background is a suicide linoleum
block; the map details and photographs are printed from polymer plates. The
signatures are sewn into a bison leather cover with a wrap band, ties, tackets
and deer horn buttons.
Wondrous!
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