P. T. Hanna, “California’s Debt to Jedediah Strong Smith,” in Touring Topics (Los Angeles, California, September 1926).
C. H. Merriam, “Earliest Crossings of the Deserts of Utah and Nevada to Southern California; Route of Jedediah S. Smith,” California Historical Society Quarterly, 1923, Vol. 2, pp. 228-237.
J. G. Neihardt, The Splendid Wayfaring (New York, 1920).
Maurice Sullivan, The Travels of Jedediah Smith (Santa Ana, California, 1934).
A. M. Woodbury, “The Route of Jedediah S. Smith in 1826 from the Great Salt Lake to the Colorado River,” Utah Historical Quarterly, 1931, 4:35-46.
[11]From letter of Jedediah Strong Smith, Maurice Sullivan, The Travels of Jedediah Smith, pp. 15, 27-28.
[12]C. L. Camp, ed., “The Chronicles of George C. Yount,” California Historical Society Quarterly, 1923.
[13]Cf. Herbert S. Auerbach, “Old Trails, Old Forts, Old Trappers and Traders,” Utah Historical Quarterly, Vol. IX, 1941, pp. 13-63.
[14]Cf. J. C. Fremont, Narrative of the Exploring Expedition to the Rocky Mountains (New York, 1846).
[15]What is now the Virgin River was called Sulphur Creek by Escalante in 1776. Jedediah S. Smith named it Adams River, to which he adhered in letters written on both trips of 1826 and 1827. This upsets the idea that he named it for Thomas Virgin, a member of his party. George C. Yount, as recorded in 1923 by Charles L. Camp, (loc. cit., p. 10), told of entering the Virgin River valley on a trip in 1830, but this is no assurance that it was so named at that early date. It bore the name of Rio Virgin in 1844 when Fremont passed over the Spanish Trail and doubtless the name was given between 1827 and 1844. In Fremont’s time, the Muddy River was called “Rio de Los Angeles,” and the Mountain Meadows “las Vegas de Santa Clara” (the Meadows of St. Clara).