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Smith, Dwight L. was born on April 11, 1918 in West Elkton, Ohio, United States. Son of Clarence S. and Mary A. (Barnhart) Smith.
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When gold was discovered in the Fraser River country of British Columbia in the 1850s, St. Paul, Minnesota became the departure point for the plunge westward, as was St. Louis for the American gold rushes. Minnesotans soon caught the fever. Nine young men set out in July of 1858 for the goldfields of British Columbia. Struggling through inhospitable territory, losing their way, and barely surviving the winter, battered remnants of the splintered party straggled out into the Oregon country in the spring, apparently having abandoned their dream of gold. One of the few available accounts of Canadian overlanders in the gold rush, this book is the journal of John Jones, a member of the party. Occasionally, he sent a narrative letter of their progress to newspapers back in Minnesota, but the bulk of this book is Jones’ informative daily entries portraying the agony and the drama of this frustrated trek. Beyond its intrinsically readable and informative value, the Jones journal has significance as a historical document. It is the earliest Canadian gold rush account and it stands alone for the year 1858.
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Smith, Dwight L. was born on April 11, 1918 in West Elkton, Ohio, United States. Son of Clarence S. and Mary A. (Barnhart) Smith.
AB, Indiana Central College, Indianapolis, 1940. AM, Indiana University, 1941. Doctor of Philosophy, Indiana University, 1949.
Doctor of Letters, University Indianapolis, 1987.
Instructor Indiana Central College, Indianapolis, 1942-1943, Ohio State University, Columbus, 1949-1953. Assistant professor, professor Miami University, Oxford, Ohio, 1953-1984, professor emeritus, since 1984. Visiting professor Centre College, Danville, Kentucky, 1952, Columbia University, New York City, 1954-1955, Indiana University, Bloomington, 1962-1963, University Alberta, Edmonton, 1964, Colorado College, Colorado Springs, 1965, University British Columbia, Vancouver, 1967, University New Mexico, Albuquerque, 1968.
Research historian Ohio History Society, Columbus, 1950-1951. Editor, consultant American Bibliographical Center, Santa Barbara, California, 1966-1981. Fellow Newberry Library., Chicago, 1952, 64, 67.
Research fellow Miami University, 1957, 59, 82. Fellow Institute Environmental Sciences, Miami University, 1977. Lilly Endowment fellow Clements Library., Ann Arbor, Michigan, 1962.
Samuel Foster Haven fellow American Antiquarian Society, Worcester, Massachusetts, 1982. Research fellow Huntington Library., San Marino, California, 1983.
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(Salt Lake City published Exploration)
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President Friends of Libraries, Miami University, 1979-1980. Staff sergeant United States Army Air Force, 1943-1946. Member Society Ethnohistory (president 1955-1956), Association Bibliography of History (president 1979-1980), Oxford Museum Association (president 1957-1958), Ohio Academy History (president 1978-1979, distinguished service award 1985), Western History Association (award of merit 1993).
Married Jane de Leon, May 6, 1955. 1 child, Gregory B.