Printed materials, 1958.

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Printed materials, 1958.

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A newspaper clipping (n.d.) regarding the life of explorer Jedediah Strong Smith, and a printed pamphlet (1958) entitled, "He Opened the West: Jedediah Stron Smith." The pamphlet reproduces diary entries of Smith and Harrison G. Rogers recorded during their travels through the Humboldt and Del Norte regions of California Territory in 1828.

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University of Oklahoma, Bizzell Memorial Library

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University of Oklahoma, Bizzell Memorial Library

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Smith, Jedediah Strong, 1799-1831

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Jedediah Strong Smith was born June 24, 1799 in Bainbridge, Chenango County, New York. He was the son of Jedediah Smith of New Hampshire and was the eldest of fourteen children. Jedediah's early childhood was spent in Ohio where he received and English and Latin education. At thirteen he became a clerk on a Lake Erie freighter where he learned business methods and met traders returning from the Far West. Jedediah became ambitious for an adventure to the wilderness and he went to St. Louis around...

Rogers, Harrison G., -1828

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