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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 Willia

Copy of an article by Maurice L. Howe, containing excerpts concerning Indian customs, etc., from Smith's journal published by Maurice S. Sullivan in the Travels

This is the journal of Jedediah Smith, businessman, mountain man, adventurer and explorer and his expedition to California in 1826. Smith kept a detailed and in

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

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 unknow