january utc to continue the smith story i found the book men against the mountains by alson j smith i would have preferred jedediah smith and the opening of the west by dale l morgan but my local library didn't have it because both books were written prior to the discovery of the lost journal they both contain some errors in particulars of the travel route that were corrected in brooks' book facts were established earlier however for j smith's return to california and the completion of the expedition at fort vancouver i found that j smith visited san jose monterey and yerba buena california before heading north up the sacramento valley the alson smith book doesn't give the exact route of travel from san jose to monterey but it seems unlikely that the expedition passed through my home turf in santa cruz county my original question they probably used the more established el camino real by way of mission san juan bautista helped by the alson smith book without citing it i was able to expand several more articles including california hide trade ygnacio martinez umpqua people john mcloughlin