James C. Auld

Independent Historian of the Western American Fur Trade in the early 19^th Century

  

Television             The History Channel July 18^, 2005    Featured Historian

“Taming the Wild West: The Legend of Jedediah Smith”

Produced by Indigo Films, San Rafael, California

 

Radio                      KQED San Francisco, California        Featured Essayist

“The California Report”, produced by National Public Radio

               

Print                        Columbia, The Magazine of Nothwest History         Article

“Following Fortune: Jedediah Smith’s Trapping & Trading

Expedition to the Northwest”

                                                Castor Canadensis Spring 1996         Article

“The Jedediah Smith Pacific Northwest Expedition of

                                                1827-1828: Political, Geographic and Cultural Challenges”

 

Castor Canadensis Summer 1996       Article

“Jedediah Smith, The Umpqua Massacre and the

Hudson’s Bay Company at Fort Vancouver”

 

Castor Canadensis Spring 1997       Book Review

“Give Your Heart to the Hawks, A Tribute to the Mountain Man”

 By Winfred Blevins

                                                 

                Internet                  jedsmithlegacy.com

                                                                                                                                                               

                Speaking                51^st California History Institute, University of the Pacific

Stockton, California                             Featured Speaker, Presenter

 

The Newberry Library

Chicago, Illinois                                   Colloquium Presenter

 

                                                The Umpqua Discovery Center

Reedsport, Oregon                              Featured Speaker

 

                                                51^st Pacific NW History Conference

Boise Idaho                                           Presenter

 

                                                42^nd Missouri Valley History Conference

Omaha, Nebraska                                 Presenter

 

 

Education              B.S.Ed., History, Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, Illinois   

 

 

Contact                  jedsmithlegacy@comcast.net 

 

 

 

Research Sites Visited and Consulted

                                                               

                                                                Missouri Historical Society, St. Louis, Missouri

                                                                Robert Campbell House and Museum, St. Louis, Missouri

                                                                Mercantile Library, St. Louis, Missouri

                                                                St. Louis City Hall, Public Records, St. Louis, Missouri

                                                                Grant County Historical Museum, Ulysses, Kansas

                                                                Kansas State Historical Society, Topeka, Kansas                         

                                                                Ohio Historical Society, Columbus, Ohio

                                                                Richland County Courthouse, Recorder of Deeds, Mansfield, Ohio

                                                                Mansfield Public Library, Mansfield, Ohio

                                                                Ashland County Historical Society, Ashland, Ohio

                                                                Great Lakes Historical Society, Vermilion, Ohio

                                                                Lucas County Public Library, Toledo, Ohio

                                                                Chicago Historical Society, Chicago, Illinois

The Newberry Library, Chicago, Illinois

                                                                Keithsburg Museum, Keithsburg, Illinois

                                                                Memorial Library, Arlington Heights, Illinois

                                                                Schaumburg Public Library, Schaumburg, Illinois

                                                                Fort Armstrong Arsenal Museum, Rock Island, Illinois

                                                                John Halberg Museum. Rock Island, Illinois

                                                                Illinois State Historical Society, Springfield, Illinois

                                                                Rock Island County Historical Research Library, Rock Island, Illinois

                                      

                                                                Mississippi River Museum Archives, Dubuque, Iowa

                                                                Louisiana State University Archives, Baton Rouge, Louisiana

                                                                The New Orleans Public Library, New Orleans, Louisiana

                                                                The Historic New Orleans Collection, New Orleans, Louisiana

                                                                Chenango County Historical Society, Norwich, New York

                                                                Detroit Public Library, Detroit, Michigan

                                                                Wisconsin Historical Society, Madison, Wisconsin

                                                                Brown County Historical Society, Green Bay, Wisconsin

                                                                University of Washington, Special Collections, Seattle, Washington

                                                                Okanogan County Historical Society, Okanogan, Washington

                                                                University of Oregon Library Special Collections, Eugene, Oregon

                                                                The Umpqua Discovery Center, Reedsport, Oregon

                                                                Fort Garland Museum, Fort Garland, Colorado

                                                                Denver Public Library, Denver, Colorado

                                                                Holt Atherton Research Center, UOP, Stockton, California

                                                                Centre for Rupert’s Land Studies, Winnipeg, Manitoba

                                                                Hudson’s Bay Company Archives, Winnipeg, Manitoba                           

                                                                Penticton Historical Society Archives, Penticton, British Columbia