Item Detail
-
28384
-
25
-
6
-
English
-
Jedediah Smith and the Opening of the West
-
Nebraska
-
Bison Books; University of Nebraska Press
-
468
-
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. [Publisher]
-
A History of Beaver County
A History of Box Elder County
A History of Iron County : Community Above Self
A History of Juab County
A History of Mapleton, Utah, to 1945
An Intimate Chronicle : The Journals of William Clayton
A Study of Mormon Knowledge of the American Far West Prior to the Exodus (1830 - February, 1846)
Conquering the Black Ridge
Dale L. Morgan
Desert between the Mountains : Mormons, Miners, Padres, Mountain Men, and the Opening of the Great Basin, 1772-1869
Forces That Shaped Utah's Dixie : Another Look
Forgotten Kingdom : The Mormon Theocracy in the American West, 1847-1896
Founding Fort Utah : Provo's Native Inhabitants, Early Explorers, and First Year of Settlement
General William Selby Harney : Frontier Soldier, 1800-1889
Jedediah Smith : No Ordinary Mountain Man
More Than a Beacon : A Tribute to Jerald and Sandra Tanner
Rethinking Jedediah S. Smith's Southwestern Expeditions
The German-Speaking Immigrant Experience in Utah
The Settlement of Teton Valley, Idaho-Wyoming
The Southwest Expedition of Jedediah Smith : His Personal Account of the Journey to California, 1826-1827
Utah Historians and the Reconstruction of Western History
Utah's History
Windows of Wellsville, 1856-1984
World of Wakara
Wyoming's Big Horn Basin to 1901 : A Late Frontier -
Heritage of the Valley : San Bernardino's First Century
Jedediah Smith in the West
The Great Salt Lake
The History of Jackson County, Missouri
The Travels of Jedediah Smith : A documentary outline including the journal of the great American pathfinder
William Clayton's Journal : A Daily Record of the Journal of the Original Company of 'Mormon' Pioneers from Nauvoo, Illinois, to the Valley of the Great Salt Lake