Download or read book The Southwest Expedition of Jedediah S Smith written by Jedediah Strong Smith and published by Arthur H. Clark Company. This book was released on 1977 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recounts Smith's crossings of the Mojave Desert, the Great Basin, and the Sierra Nevada and contains the daybook of Harrison G. Rogers.
Download or read book The Travels of Jedediah Smith written by Jedediah Strong Smith and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Travels of Jedediah Smith begins with Smith's own sketch of his entry into the fur trade in 1822, when he left St. Louis with an expedition headed by William H. Ashley and Andrew Henry. The book continues with the Smith's daily record from June 23, 1827, to July 3, 1828, dealing with his remarkable journey on foot over the Utah desert, his second visit to California, and his trip to Oregon.
Download or read book Jedediah Smith and the Opening of the West written by Dale Lowell Morgan and published by Indianapolis : Bobbs-Merrill. This book was released on 1953 with total page 516 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recounts Smith's explorations in the Rocky Mountains, New Southwest, Great Basin, and Sierra Nevada.
Download or read book Jedediah Smith written by Barton H. Barbour and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2012-09-10 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mountain man and fur trader Jedediah Smith casts a heroic shadow. He was the first Anglo-American to travel overland to California via the Southwest, and he roamed through more of the West than anyone else of his era. 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. 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. 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.
Download or read book Men Against the Mountains written by Alson Jesse Smith and published by New York : John Day Company. This book was released on 1965 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chronicle of the wilderness trek westward to California and up into Oregon, with appraisal of the effects and contributions of the journey.
Download or read book The Explorations of William H Ashley and Jedediah Smith 1822 1829 written by Harrison Clifford Dale and published by Bison Books. This book was released on 1991 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: William H. Ashley's expedition up the Missouri River in 1822 met with misfortunes that forced far-reaching changes in the fur-trading operations of the West. His claim to fame as an entrepreneur and explorer is clear in The Explorations of William H. Ashley and Jedediah Smith. Just as vivid is the story of the Bible-quoting Jedediah Smith, a member of Ashley's original expedition, who branched off into little-known regions, becoming the first American to reach California by an overland route. In his introduction, James P. Ronda supplies the historical context for their explorations. A professor of history at the University of Tulsa, he is the author of Lewis and Clark among the Indians (1984) and Astoria and Empire (1990).
Download or read book Jedediah Smith and the Opening of the West Second Printing With Plates Including a Portrait and a Map written by Dale Lowell MORGAN and published by . This book was released on 1965 with total page 458 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Splendid Wayfaring written by John G. Neihardt and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 1920 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With the publication of The Splendid Wayfaring in 1920, John G. Neihardt sought to restore the reputation of a mountain man who went far in opening up the American West. The exciting narrative begins in 1822, when Smith ascended the Missouri River in the first fur-trading expedition of William H. Ashley and Andrew Henry, and ends in 1831, when he was killed by Comanche Indians on the Cimarron River. In the intervening years Smith became the first explorer to recognize South Pass as the gateway to the Far West, the first overlander to reach California and travel up the coast to the Columbia River, and the first white man to cross the Sierra Nevada and the Great Basin from west to east. The Splendid Wayfaring follows in novelistic detail the history-making adventures of Smith and his companions.
Download or read book A Guide to Oregon South Coast History written by Nathan Douthit and published by . This book was released on 1986-01-01 with total page 157 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Jedediah Smith Trader and Trail Breaker written by Maurice S. Sullivan and published by . This book was released on 2008-06 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work.
Download or read book The Splendid Wayfaring written by John G. Neihardt and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-10-11 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Splendid Wayfaring: The Story of the Exploits and Adventures of Jedediah Smith and His Comrades, the Ashley-Henry Men, Discoverers and Explorers of the Great Central Route From the Missouri River to the Pacific Ocean, 1822-1831 The student of American History in our schools is given an opportunity to become well acquainted with the early explorations of the Great North west and the Great Southwest; he is taught little or nothing of the real discoverers of the central route from the Missouri River tojhe 'pa?iifc Ocean. This is due to the fact that, until very recently, our historians have been concerned too much with governmental acts, too little with the activities of the people themselves. The official explorers of the Northwest and the Southwest were actually pioneers; but the oflicial exploration of the great central region beyond the Rockies was undertaken twenty years after the actual dis coverers and explorers had set out from St. Louis. Considering the fact that it was by way of the central route that the tide of migration flowed across the Rockies and possessed the Far West, it would seem that the discovery and exploration of that route might now, at last, be given some attention in our schools. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book The Splendid Wayfaring written by John G. Neihardt and published by Excelsior Editions. This book was released on 2008-12-04 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of the famous mountain man Jedediah Smith
Download or read book Jedediah Smith written by Maurice S. Sullivan and published by . This book was released on 1936 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Jedediah Smith and the Opening of the West written by Dale Lowell Morgan and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 1953-01-01 with total page 474 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1822, before Jedediah Smith entered the West, it was largely an unknown land, “a wilderness,” he wrote, “of two thousand miles diameter.” During his nine years as a trapper for Ashley and Henry and later for the Rocky Mountain Fur Company, “the mild and Christian young man” blazed the trail westward through South Pass; he was the first to go from the Missouri overland to California, the first to cross the length of Utah and the width of Nevada, first to travel by land up through California and Oregon, first to cross the Sierra Nevada. Before his death on the Santa Fe Trail at the hands of the Comanches, Jed Smith and his partners had drawn the map of the west on a beaver skin.
Download or read book Jedediah Smith written by Sharlene P. Nelson and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 63 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discusses the life and work of Jedediah Smith, an explorer of the American West and leader of mountain men. Born in 1799, Jedediah Smith became an important explorer of the American West. He was the first American to cross the Sierra Nevadas and the Great Basin and the first American to reach California by an overland route. As a fur trader, he was considered a leader of the mountain men. His expeditions helped open the West to thousands of emigrants, changing the shape of the United States.
Download or read book The Ashley Smith Explorations and the Discovery of a Central Route to the Pacific 1822 1829 written by Harrison Clifford Dale and published by . This book was released on 1918 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Exploration of North America Coloring Book written by Peter F. Copeland and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 1992-05-01 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: realistic illustrations depict Vikings in Vinland, Columbus's ship Niña, Ponce de León in Florida, others. Captions.
