Seth kinman autobiography of malcolm

IN 1865,  Seth Kinman (1815-1888), the California Hunter and Trapper, gave US President Andrew Johnson a GRIZZLY-BAR CHAIR.

MARSHALL R. AUSPACH writes in The Lost History of Seth Kinman, 1947:

“This was intended to surpass all his previous efforts, and was made from two grizzly bears captured by Seth.

The four legs and claws were those of a huge grizzly and the back and sides ornamented with immense claws. The seat was soft and exceedingly comfortable, but the great feature of the chair was that, by touching a cord, the head of the monster grizzly bear with jaws extended , would dart out in front from under the seat, snapping and gnashing its teeth as natural as life.”

* Kinman is recorded as being the first American to purchase land in Humboldt County and in 1853 he started working as a hunter for the government, feeding U.S.

troops in Fort Humboldt. There he met future President, Ulysses S. Grant, and future General, George CrookR