His adventures quickly became the stuff of legend.
Using new information and sifting fact from folklore, Barton H. Barbour now offers a fresh look at this dynamic figure. Barbour tells how a youthful Smith was influenced by notable men who were his family's neighbors, including a member of the Lewis and Clark expedition. When he was twenty-three, hard times leavened with wanderlust set him on the road west. Barbour delves into Smith's journals to a greater extent than previous scholars and teases out compelling insights into the trader's itineraries and personality.
Use of an important letter Smith wrote late in life deepens the author's perspective on the legendary trapper. Through Smith's own voice, this larger-than-life hero is shown to be a man concerned with business obligations and his comrades' welfare, and even a person who yearned for his childhood.
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Barbour also takes a hard look at Smith's views of American Indians, Mexicans in California, and Hudson's Bay Company competitors and evaluates his dealings with these groups in the fur trade. Dozens of monuments commemorate Smith today.
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This readable book is another, giving modern readers new insight into the character and remarkable achievements of one of the West's most complex characters. Mountain man and fur trader Jedediah Smith casts a heroic shadow. The first Anglo-American to travel overland to California via the Southwest, Smith roamed through more of the West than anyone of his era, and his adventures quickly became the stuff of legend. Brooks [aq] edited and introduced the narrative portion, along with the first "journal" of Smith companion Harrison Rogers, [ar] in Smith's exploration of northwestern California and southern Oregon resulted in two rivers, the Smith River California and Smith River Oregon [] being named for him.
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Jedediah Smith, life portrait, said to have been drawn by a friend, from memory, after the death of Smith [1]. Louis; the earliest account is dated Although the advertisement placed by Ashley was asking for men, around were actually engaged. The " men" were to be trappers and were called " Ashley's Hundred ". For all practical purposes, Mexican authority did not extend much past the Pacific Coastal region.
Unlike Pike's expedition, which was commissioned by the United States Army , the Smith party was a private commercial venture.
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Although five members of the party carried United States passports , the excursion into Mexican territory was unauthorized by the United States government and without permission from the Mexican government. Had he completed his crossing this far north, it is possible he would have found the Carson River leading down to Carson Sink and Humboldt Lake in Nevada.
He then could have traveled up the Humboldt, the vital waterway making possible a route across the Great Basin Desert later used by California immigrants and forging what would later be known at the " Hastings Cutoff " across the south end of the Great Salt Lake. The Donner Party followed a reverse course of most of this route in 19 years later.
Smith's own horses deteriorated rapidly upon the trip. The portion found by Sullivan starts at this point in the journey. One man, Richard Leland, had been added to the group while there, and a young Native American boy, Marion, joined the group on the way to Oregon. Smith was disgusted by the practice [59] but saw a chance at profit. The next year, after having lost so many men at the Colorado River, he wanted to hire more in California for the trip north, but Mexican officials would not allow him to do so. In defiance of the orders, Smith did hire Richard Leland who was an excellent horseman.
However, this appears to be based on Turner's experience in a subsequent massacre. The currently accepted version is that Turner and Leland were in the canoe with Smith and avoided the attack. He had accompanied Smith to California on the trip, and was left in charge during the four months Smith was gone to the rendezvous. After Smith's death, Rogers' journals ended up in Ashley's hands.
Ashley's grand-niece donated them to the Missouri Historical Society and were the source of much early information about Smith's travels. Another account of Smith's death is that found in his obituary. That, as well as the fact that, a search two days later had found no sign of Smith's body [26] give some credence to the Ezra Smith's version.
It was documented that "Mr. Smith" spoke the prayer, but there were three Smith's in the party. However, Smith's assessment of the Great Basin indigenes is harsh, considering they probably saved his life more than once as he crossed the desert. The daily entries did not recommence until November 7, Brooks only published this first journal and stated that Smith likely used it as a reference in preparing the —31 narrative.
Some of the missing pages are probably "the journal" Smith gave to the Spanish officials to try to convince them of his party's innocent intentions, since the detail in the Parkman narrative indicates Smith and Parkman had access to Smith's notes of the group's travels from the time it left in August, until reaching California. Rogers' second journal starts on May 10, , and continued documenting the excursion until he was killed in the Umpqua massacre. The lapse of entries from January until May may have been due to a lack of paper or there may have been other journals that were lost in the massacre.
Harrison Dale published both recovered journals in His name was therefore attached to a smaller river to the north just south of California's border with Oregon, and also to the branch of the Umpqua River whose mouth was near the massacre site and where it was rumored to be his place of death. Smith and the Settlement of Kansas. Collections of the Kansas State Historical Society. Kansas State Historical Society.
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