Smith, Dwight L.

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SMITH, Dwight L.

SMITH, Dwight L. American, b. 1918. Genres: History, Travel/Exploration, Bibliography. Career: Professor Emeritus of American Frontier and Canadian History, Miami University, Oxford, Ohio, 1984- (Professor, 1953-84). Ed., The Old Northwest. Instructor, Ohio State University, Columbus, 1949-53. Research Historian, Ohio Historical Society, 1950-51; Ed. and Consultant, American Bibliographical Center, 1966-81. Publications: From Greene Ville to Fallen Timbers, 1952; The Western Journals of John May: Ohio Company Agent and Business Adventurer, 1961; (with C.G. Crampton) The Hoskaninni Papers: Mining in Glen Canyon, 1961; Down the Colorado, 1965; Western Life in the Stirrups, 1965; The Photographer and the River, 1967; John D. Young and the Colorado Gold Rush, 1969; (with L. W. Garrison) The American Political Process, 1972; The American and Canadian West, 1979; (with C.G. Crampton) The Colorado River Survey, 1987; Survival on a Westward Trek, 1989; (with R. Swick) A Journey through the West, 1997; A Tour of Duty in the Pacific Northwest: E.A. Porcher and H.M.S. Spar- rowhawk, 1865-1868, 2000. EDITOR: Afro-American History, 2 vols., 1974- 81; Indians of the United States and Canada, 1974, vol. 2, 1983; Era of the American Revolution, 1975; The History of Canada, 1983; The War of 1812, 1985. Address: Department of History, Miami University, Oxford, OH 45056, U.S.A.