Recounts Smith's crossings of the Mojave Desert, the Great Basin, and the Sierra Nevada and contains the daybook of Harrison G. Rogers.

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

Recounts Smith's explorations in the Rocky Mountains, New Southwest, Great Basin, and Sierra Nevada.

Chronicle of the wilderness trek westward to California and up into Oregon, with appraisal of the effects and contributions of the journey.

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 roa