Item Detail
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28097
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English
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Rethinking Jedediah S. Smith's Southwestern Expeditions
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Utah Historical Quarterly
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84
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4
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Salt Lake City, UT
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Utah Historical Society
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277-294
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Despite recent interest in Jed Smith and other mountain men, historians and "buffs" have generally ignored the 1977 publication of a year-long journal covering Smith's most important early travels, including exploration of the territory that would become Utah... This essay seeks to rectify this, reminding and reacquainting readers with the role of a truly important figure in the exploration and thus, indirectly, the settlement of Utah and the West. [from the text]