Mountain man and fur trader Jedediah Smith casts a heroic shadow.
Barbour tells how a youthful Smith was influenced by notable men who were his family\'s neighbors, including a.
Barbour now offers a fresh look at this dynamic figure.
Using new information and sifting fact from folklore, Barton H.
His adventures quickly became the stuff of legend.
He was the first Anglo-American to travel overland to California via the Southwest, and he roamed through more of the West than anyone else of his era.
Mountain man and fur trader Jedediah Smith casts a heroic shadow