Author, Creators: 

          Harrison G. Rogers; Member of the J. S. Smith; Arthur H. Clark Company;
             The Ashley-Smith Exploration, Cleveland Harrison Clifford Dale (editor).

Title:

       The Journals of Harrison G. Rogers : From : Missouri Historical Society:
       The Ashley Smith Explorations and the Discovery of a Central Route to the Pacific, 1822 to 1829
            -- A modern reprint of the original 1918 book.

Subject, Features:    

         --   Thoroughly engaging.  Excellent resource for early California history.  Jedediah Smith is recognized as the American whose explorations led to the use of the 20-mile wide South Pass as the dominant point of crossing the Continental Divide for pioneers on the Oregon Trail.

Publisher, Details:

          -- Replica of the original 1918 book containing the memoirs and events of explorer,
                 frontiersman, hunter, trapper Jedediah Smith.

            --  82 pages, in very good, like new condition.  Flex covers, cloth binding.  
            -- Replica/reprint published by Library Archive Services Co. (undated) Circa 2007.

About the Author:   Roger's first surviving journal was in two segments; an accounting ledger with a narrative that began abruptly on November 27, 1826, and ended as abruptly on December 20, 1826, and then a second segment that starts again on January 1, 1827, and ends on January 28.

Brooks only published this first journal and stated that Smith likely used it as a reference in preparing the 1830–31 narrative. Some of the missing pages are probably "the journal" Smith gave to the Spanish officials to try to convince them of his party's innocent intentions, since the detail in the Parkman narrative indicates Smith and Parkman had access to Smith's notes of the group's travels from the time it left in August, 1826 until reaching California.

Rogers' second journal starts on May 10, 1828, and continued documenting the excursion until he was killed in the Umpqua massacre. The lapse of entries from January 1827 until May 1828 may have been due to a lack of paper or there may have been other journals that were lost in the massacre. -- Source: Wikipedia.

-- Defects: Yes, Some edge wear, normal for age. Light cover soil, minimal.  Overall very nice condition.

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