We leave it to the researcher to ponder if Jedediah’s brothers’ images resemble Jedediah Smith (of course the siblings are much older in years than Jed’s young adulthood).Ħ. One can speculate on the similarities or differences so surprisingly evident one way or the other in families. Photographs of three brothers, Peter, Ira, and Benjamin, and three sisters, Sally, Betsy, and Eunice are to be found in the Smith Bacon Family Papers. Without a photograph of Jedediah Smith, what images can we offer researchers looking for illustrations of Jedediah? There are photographs of his brothers and sisters. Original painting -Special Collections, University of the Pacific Library. A photograph of the painting appeared in The Pacific Historian vol. Don Prechtel, The Real Discovery of South Pass, Wyoming (Jed Smith and fellow hunter James Clyman), original oil painting. Original painting is a large canvas on display at South Dakota State College, Brookings, SD.ĥ. 3, Fall 1971 and the dust jacket of the American Heritage History of the Great West. Harvey Dunn, Jedediah Smith in the Badlands, appeared on the cover of Together magazine, June 1960 as the cover of The Pacific Historian vol. Smith and men in the Mojave Desert in 1826, as imaginatively painted, ca. American heroes such as Davie Crockett and Jim Bowie are other major historical figures that were never documented by photography due to their early demise at the Alamo. Louis about 1843, four years after the birth of photography, and still twelve years after Jedediah Smith’s death. Louis, the bustling fur-trade center and jumping-off-place for the western frontier, developed quickly in a boom city economy. Daguerreotypes quickly replaced the miniature painted portraits. The photographic studios were operational on the East Coast in cities like New York as early as 1840-41. Engravings from designs by Nast, Darley, and other eminent artists, added a modish moustache of the 1880s. The artist did this sketch for Colonel Frank Triplett’s Conquering the Wilderness new pictorial history of the life and times of the pioneer heroes and heroines of America. Sketch of Jed Smith escaping from the Mojaves on his return to California in 1827. Morse, inventor of the telegraph, was one of the first to bring daguerreotype technology to America. Yankee ingenuity embraced the technique very quickly and the very first American daguerreotype was made in 1839. Daguerre introduced his photographic technique using a silver-coated copper plate and the resulting photographs were named after him- the daguerreotype. This was the year two principal inventors of the art, Louis-Jacques-Mande Daguerre in France and Fox Talbot in Great Britain, made their techniques known to the public. Although early experiments in photochemistry and the camera obscura were centuries old, the invention date of photography is considered to be 1839. The 32 year old veteran mountain man died on the Cimarron on May 27, 1831, when he was attacked by Comanche Indians.
Those who understand the history of photography and the early demise of Jedediah Smith know that a photograph of the stalwart mountain man is an impossibility. The most frequent request asked of the Holt-Atherton Department of Special Collections is to supply a photograph of Jedediah Strong Smith. Both appear in The Pacific Historian, vol.
A later artist, Ruth Senf Framberg, used it for the basis of her oil painting at the Friends of the Middle Border Gallery, Mitchell, South Dakota.
It is said to have been done from memory by a friend after Jed died, so noted above. This portrait is the only known with any claim to authenticity.
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