The Journal of Julius Rodman by Edgar Allan Poe - Delphi Classics (Illustrated)

By Edgar Allan Poe

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• Release date: Jul 17, 2017
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Edgar Allan Poe

Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849) was an American author of short stories, poetry, and literary criticism and theory. Titled "The Master of the Macabre" he is famous for his tales of mystery and horror. He was one of the earliest masters of the short story and is widely credited as the creator of detective fiction.

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The Complete Works of

EDGAR ALLAN POE

VOLUME 8 OF 21

The Journal of Julius Rodman

Parts Edition

By Delphi Classics, 2015

Version 6

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‘The Journal of Julius Rodman’

Edgar Allan Poe: Parts Edition (in 21 parts)

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Edgar Allan Poe: Parts Edition

This eBook is Part 8 of the Delphi Classics edition of Edgar Allan Poe in 21 Parts. It features the unabridged text of The Journal of Julius Rodman from the bestselling edition of the author’s Complete Works. Having established their name as the leading publisher of classic literature and art, Delphi Classics produce publications that are individually crafted with superior formatting, while introducing many rare texts for the first time in digital print. Our Parts Editions feature original annotations and illustrations relating to the life and works of Edgar Allan Poe, as well as individual tables of contents, allowing you to navigate eBooks quickly and easily.

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EDGAR ALLAN POE

IN 21 VOLUMES

Parts Edition Contents

The Poetry Collections

1, Tamerlane and Other Poems

2, Al Aaraaf, Tamerlane and Minor Poems

3, Poems, 1831

4, The Raven and Other Poems

5, Uncollected Poems

The Tales

6, The Complete Tales

The Novels

7, The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket

8, The Journal of Julius Rodman

The Play

9, Politian

The Essays

10, The Complete Essays

The Non-Fiction

11, The Conchologist’s First Book

12, The Literati

13, Marginalia

14, Fifty Suggestions

15, A Chapter on Autography

The Letters

16, The Complete Letters of Edgar Poe

The Criticism

17, The Criticism

The Biographies

18, The Story of Edgar Allan Poe by Sherwin Cody

19, The Dreamer by Mary Newton Stanard

20, Memoir of the Author by Rufus Wilmot Griswold

21, Death of Edgar A. Poe. by N. P. Willis

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The Journal of Julius Rodman

Being an Account of the First Passage across the Rocky Mountains of North America Ever Achieved by Civilized Man

This is an unfinished serial novel, of which only six installments were published in Burton’s Gentleman’s Magazine’s January through June issues in 1840. At the time, Poe was a contributing editor of the journal. He was fired in June 1840 by William Burton and refused to continue the novel. In 1840, members of the United States Senate believed the story to be a true account. Robert Greenhow (1800–1854), a native of Richmond, Virginia whose family may have known Poe, wrote a paragraph about the work in U.S. Senate Document of the 26th Congress, entitled Memoir, Historical and Political, on the Northwest Coast of North America, and the Adjacent Territories; Illustrated by a Map and a Geographical View of Those Countries. The document stated, It is proper to notice here an account of an expedition across the American continent, made between 1791 and 1794, by a party of citizens of the United States, under the direction of Julius Rodman, whose journal has been recently discovered in Virginia, and is now in course of publication in a periodical magazine at Philadelphia. Greenhow admitted that the full expedition had not yet been completely reported.  This unintended hoax on the U.S. Senate suggests Poe’s ability to add credibility to his fiction.

THE JOURNAL OF JULIUS RODMAN.

BEING AN ACCOUNT OF THE FIRST PASSAGE ACROSS THE ROCKY MOUNTAINS OF NORTH AMERICA EVER ACHIEVED BY CIVILIZED MAN.

CONTENTS

CHAPTER I. — INTRODUCTORY.

CHAPTER II.

CHAPTER III.

CHAPTER IV.

CHAPTER V.

CHAPTER VI.

CHAPTER I. — INTRODUCTORY.

WHAT we must consider an unusual piece of good fortune has enabled us to present our readers, under this head, with a narrative of very remarkable character, and certainly of very deep interest. The Journal which follows not only embodies a relation of the first successful attempt to cross the gigantic barriers of that immense chain of mountains which stretches from the Polar Sea in the north, to the Isthmus of Darien in the south, forming a craggy and snow-capped rampart throughout its whole course, but, what is of still greater importance, gives the particulars of a tour, beyond these mountains, through an immense extent of territory, which, at this day, is looked upon as totally untravelled and unknown, and which, in every map of the country to which we can obtain access, is marked as "an unexplored region." It is, moreover, the only unexplored region within the limits of the continent of North America. Such being the case, our friends will know how to pardon us for the slight amount of unction with which we have urged this Journal upon the public attention. For our own parts, we have found, in its perusal, a degree, and a species of interest such as no similar narrative ever inspired. Nor do we think that our relation to these papers, as the channel through which they will be first made known, has had more than a moderate influence in begetting this interest. We feel assured that all our readers will unite with us in thinking the adventures here recorded unusually entertaining and important. The peculiar character of the gentleman who was the leader and soul of the expedition, as well as its historian, has imbued what he has written with a vast deal of romantic fervor, very different from the luke-warm and statistical air which pervades most records of the kind. Mr. James E. Rodman, from whom we obtained the MS., is well known to many of the readers of this Magazine; and partakes, in some degree, of that temperament which embittered the earlier portion of the life of his grandfather, Mr. Julius Rodman, the writer of the narrative.  We allude to an hereditary hypochondria. It was the instigation of this disease which, more than any thing else, led him to attempt the extraordinary journey here detailed.  The hunting and trapping designs, of which he speaks himself, in the beginning of his Journal, were, as far as we can perceive, but excuses made to his own reason, for the audacity and novelty of his attempt.  There can be no doubt, we think, (and our readers will think with us,) that he was urged solely by a desire to seek, in the bosom of the wilderness, that peace which his peculiar disposition would not suffer him to enjoy among men. He fled to the desert as to a friend. In no other view of the case can we reconcile many points of his record with our ordinary notions of human action.

As we have thought proper to omit two pages of the MS., in which Mr. R. gives some account of his life previous to his departure up the Missouri, it may be as well to state here that he was a native of England, where his relatives were of excellent standing, where he had received a good education, and from which country he emigrated to this, in 1784, (being then about eighteen years of age,) with his father, and two maiden sisters. The family first settled in New York; but afterwards made their way to Kentucky, and established themselves, almost in hermit fashion, on the banks of the Mississippi, near where Mills ‘ Point now makes into the river.  Here old Mr. Rodman died, in the fall of 1790; and, in the ensuing winter, both his daughters perished of the small-pox, within a few weeks of each other. Shortly afterwards, (in the spring of 1791,) Mr. Julius Rodman, the son, set out upon the expedition which forms the subject of the following pages. Returning from this in 1794, as hereinafter stated, he took up his abode near Abingdon, in Virginia, where