Redwood History Basic Data

ENDNOTES

1. Dale L. Morgan, Jedediah Smith: And the Opening of the West (Indianapolis, 1953), pp. 260-261; Maurice S. Sullivan, Jedediah Smith: Trader and Trail Breaker (New York, 1936), pp. 166-167.

2. Sullivan, Trader and Trail Breaker, p. 168. The horses and mules had been purchased in California, ana Smith planned to drive them to Missouri for sale at a handsome profit.

3. Sullivan, Trader and Trail Breaker, p. 168.

4. Ibid., pp. 169-170; Morgan, Jedediah Smith, pp. 262-263.

5. Morgan, Jedediah Smith, p. 263.

6. Ibid., pp. 263-264. Camp on June 3 was made on Hoppaw Creek, one-half mile east of the site of the Douglas Memorial Bridge.

7. Ibid., p. 264. Smith's camp on June 4 was near where Mynot Creek discharged into Hunter Creek.

8. The Quest for Qual-a-wa-loo [Humboldt Bay], ed., Oscar Lewis (San Francisco, 1943), p. 53; Morgan, Jedediah Smith, p. 264.

9. The Quest for Qual-a-wa-loo, pp. 53-54.

10. Ibid., pp. 54-55; Morgan, Jedediah Smith, pp. 264.

11. The Travels of Jedediah Smith . . ., edited by Maurice S. Sullivan (Santa Ana, 1934), pp. 97-98.

12. Ibid., p. 98.

13. The Quest for Qual-a-wa-loo, pp. 55-56.

14. Ibid., p. 56. The ridge followed by the company on the 11th was to the east of, and parallel to, U.S. 101.

15. Ibid., pp. 56-57.

16. Ibid., pp. 57-58. The camp site of June 14-15 was on Elk Creek, one-fourth mile west of the junction of U.S. 101 and the Elk Valley road.

17. Ibid., pp. 61-72; Morgan, Jedediah Smith, pp. 264-279.

18. J. J. Warner, Reminiscences of Early California, MS, Bancroft Collection, pp. 29-33, 47-49; Coy, The Humboldt Bay Region, pp. 32-33. The Quest for Qual-a-wa-loo, pp. 82-83.

19. The Quest for Qual-a-wa-loo, pp. 75-79.

20. Ibid.

21. Eugene D. de Mofras, Exploration du Territoire de l'Oregon, des Californies et de la mer Vermeille, executee pendant les annees, 1840, 1841 et 1842, 2 vols. with atlas (Paris, 1844), 2, 35.

22. Ibid., 2, 38-39.

23. Elliott, History of Humboldt County, p. 3.

24. Quest for Qual-a-wa-loo, pp. 113-128; Coy, The Humboldt Bay Region, pp. 37-40.

25. Quest for Qual-a-wa-loo, pp. 130-133.

26. Coy, The Humboldt Bay Region, pp. 41-44.