Talk:Norman Clyde

"Alaska and Himalaya"
I propose to correct, rewrite and expand this article. I believe that this passage is particularly weak: ". . . and traveled to Alaska and the Himalaya. He traveled more extensively than the Sierra and did encounter US and extra-US counter parts in those ranges." I've read everything I can get my hands on about Norman Clyde, and have been unable to find any references saying that he visited Alaska or the Himalaya. I believe that the source of the error is a timeline at the end of Pavlik's biography of Clyde that includes highlights from Clyde's life as well as broader highlights of mountaineering and general world history. Someone quickly skimming this section may have come away with the mistaken notion that Clyde climbed in those areas. The stuff about encountering "extra-US counterparts" seems very weak to me. Is that a strange way of saying he met climbers who weren't US citizens? If so, so what? 03:22, 23 August 2009 (UTC)

I've completed much of the editing I proposed last month, and will add new information soon. Jim Heaphy (talk) 01:28, 17 September 2009 (UTC)

Gun
The information I added was taken from my notes taken form the book Harvest Years and which was also published in The Reader's Digest. The article before my edit mentioned the use of a pistol in Independence. My information says it was a shotgun. I compromised by just saying it was a gun. --Droll 04:01, 25 March 2006 (UTC)


 * Thanks for adding that info. I've seen at least one source that referred to it as a pistol, I think even giving the caliber. But "gun" is accurate too. Cheers, -Will Beback 04:13, 25 March 2006 (UTC)

http://www.adventuresportsjournal.com/html/Articles/30/30_flashback.htm

I visited the Eastern California Museum in Independence, CA on September 8, 2009, and obtained copies of two documents that pertain to this incident. The newspaper Inyo Independent reported on November 3, 1928 that it was a revolver that Clyde fired. Also, Clyde obtained a "License to Carry Concealed Firearm" on February 2, 1928. The weapon was a Smith & Wesson 45 caliber 6 shot U.S. Army model serial number 123096. This is almost certainly the weapon in question. Jim Heaphy (talk) 01:28, 17 September 2009 (UTC)


 * I just reread the relevant section in "Norman Clyde, Legendary Mountaineer of California's Sierra Nevada". What I said previously was somewhat incorrect with regards to this and I'm going to delete it. The account in that book has the driver of the car not realizing that the bullet had hit the car, but a passenger did. They stopped the car, found the bullet hole and then drove the car to the sheriff and showed him the bullet hole. However Clyde denied shooting at the car, only the air over their heads. Given the facts it seems more likely than not that Clyde did shoot at the car, but I think the evidence falls short of the unequivocal claim that this article makes that he did. It is still conceivable that the bullet hole preexisted the event or that the students created the hole themselves. At the least, I think Clyde's claim that he didn't shoot at the car should be included in the article.--Davefoc (talk) 20:00, 1 March 2011 (UTC)


 * The following was sent to me in an email from Jim Heaphy. It was relevant to the issue I brought up and it provided a surprisingly (to me) definitive argument that Clyde's bullet did hit the car and he probably shot at the car. Thank you Jim.
 * The Inyo Independent reported on November 3, 1928 that "a bullet from a revolver fired by Norman Clyde, principal of the high school, struck an automobile driven by Bill Fisk and occupied by a group of high school boys." Later, the story said that Clyde "has declined to make a formal statement" but according to "his version of the affairs", he fired two warning shots into the air, and "then fired at the wheel of one of the cars but the bullet glanced and hit the side of the car". This article was published less than four days after the incident, but Clyde's claim of firing just warning shots was published 45 years later in the Los Angeles Times, according to Robert Pavlik. We can't know exactly what happened that night, but I am almost certain that Norman Clyde put a bullet into that car. Whether it was malicious or accidental, we can't know. It is known that he was an excellent marksman.
 * Given what Jim wrote I withdraw my suggestion for any change to the article on this issue.--Davefoc (talk) 01:52, 6 March 2011 (UTC)

Photo of Norman Clyde at Le Conte Canyon
I added a profile view of Norman Clyde. There is another portrait with front view which could be used to replace the existing black and white portrait. IMHO The profile view illustrates the sentences on his pack quite well.Rdmoore6 (talk) 13:34, 20 December 2016 (UTC)

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