The Travels of Jedediah Smith

Smith, Jedediah Strong

Science & Math

Univ of Nebraska Pr

Jedediah S. Smith was to western exploration what Benjamin Franklin and Thomas Edison were to the world of invention—a legendary figure kiting into the unknown, a lighter of the dark. No one did more to open the American West than this mountain man. His greatest exploring expedition came in 1826 when he looked to the Southwest for trapping grounds.
Jedediah Smith's route ran, in modern terms, from Soda Springs in Idaho to the Great Salt Lake, southward across Utah, along the Colorado River to the Mojave Desert, and westward to California. When he reached the San Gabriel mission there, he could claim to be the first American to have gone overland through the Southwest. Then Smith marched northward through the San Joaquin Valley and, with two companions, embarked across the Great Basin. In traveling to the rendezvous of 1827 they became the first citizens of the United States ever to cross the Sierra eastbound and the Great Basin.
That is the itinerary described in The Southwest Expedition of Jedediah S. Smith, which contains the mountain man's long-lost journals. After coming to light in 1967, they were edited by George R. Brooks and published in a limited edition a decade later. This Bison Book reprint brings a scarce historical record to a wider audience.

Southwest Expedition of Jedediah S. Smith: His Personal Account of the Journey to California, 1826-1827

Biographies & Memoirs

University Of Nebraska Press

Bound in the original red cloth, octavo, 259 pages with three maps, including folding frontispiece map. First publication (second printing) of Smith's own account of his second journey to California. The manuscript was discovered in an attic in St Louis, MO in 1967 following an address to the Missouri Historical Society by historian and Jedediah Smith biographer Dale Morgan. Morgan had encouraged his listeners to search their closets and attics for interesting materials relating to the fur trade and his suggestion and this manuscript thus came to light. Western Frontiersman Series XVIII .

The Southwest expedition of Jedediah S. Smith: His personal account of the journey to California, 1826-1827 (Western frontiersman series)

Travelers & Explorers

A.H. Clark Co

The Ashley-Smith Explorations and the Discovery of a Central Route to the Pacific, 1822-1829, With the Original Journals

History

Dale, Harrison Clifford

Ashley, William Henry

Americas

Legare Street Press

The Ashley-Smith Explorations And The Discovery Of A Central Route To The Pacific, 1822-1829 (1917)

Historical

Kessinger Publishing

This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book.

The Ashley-Smith explorations and the discovery of a central route to the Pacific, 1822-1829, with the original journals

Nabu Press

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