Editing Jedediah Smith (section)

==Author of journal==
Another important piece of the Jedediah Smith story was discovered in 1967, when another portion of the 1830–31 narrative (again in Parkman's hand) was found amongst other historical papers in an attic in St. Louis.{{sfn|Smith|Rogers|Ashley|1992|pages=12–13}} This portion documented Smith's first California trip (1826–27), and immediately preceded the portion of the narrative found by Sullivan 35 years earlier.  George R. Brooks{{efn|George Brooks, 1929–2006, St. Louis author and editor}} edited and introduced the narrative portion, along with the first "journal" of Smith companion Harrison Rogers,{{efn |Rogers' first surviving journal was in two segments; an accounting ledger with a narrative that began abruptly on November 27, 1826, and ended as abruptly on December 20, 1826, and then a second segment that starts again on January 1, 1827, and ends on January 28.  Brooks only published this first journal and stated that Smith likely used it as a reference in preparing the 1830–31 narrative. Some of the missing pages are probably "the journal" Smith gave to the Spanish officials to try to convince them of his party's innocent intentions since the detail in the Parkman narrative indicates Smith and Parkman had access to Smith's notes of the group's travels from the time it left in August 1826 until reaching California.  Rogers' second journal starts on May 10, 1828, and continued to document the excursion until he was killed in the Umpqua massacre. The lapse of entries from January 1827 until May 1828 may have been due to a lack of paper or there may have been other journals that were lost in the massacre.  Harrison Dale published both recovered journals in 1918.}} in 1977.<ref>{{cite book |ref={{harvid|Smith|1977}} |title=The Southwest Expedition of Jedediah S. Smith: His Personal Account of the Journey to California, 1826–1827" |author1=Jedediah. S. Smith |author2=Harrison G. Rogers |editor=George R. Brooks |date=1977 |publisher=A. H. Clark Company |isbn=978-0-87062-123-9 |oclc=3598127}}</ref>