A fur trader in the Michigan Territory and confidant of both the US government and local
Indian tribes, Jacob Smith could have stepped out of a James Fenimore Cooper novel …

In 1854, after recently arriving from England, twenty-two-year-old Reuben Smith traveled
west, eventually making his way to Kansas Territory. There he found himself in the midst of a …

This engraving of Gerrit Smith, appeared in Frank Leslie's Illustrated? Newspaper,
November" He Stands Like Jupiter" The Autobiography of Gerrit Smith B^ JOHNR …

Schuyler one Peter Smith and his wife Elizabeth Livingston, daughter of Col. James
Livingston of Revolutionary fame. Now Peter, at one time a partner with John Jacob Astor in …

The story of Jedediah Strong Smith does not cover a long span of years. He was only 32
when he met his tragic death at the hands of the Comanches; and into less than a decade …

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 roamed through more of …

The fictional adventures of the heroic railroad detective called Whispering Smith have
entertained readers, motion picture enthusiasts and television viewers for many years. The …

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 …