The Zybach Collection · Jedediah Smith
Maps
Five GIS sheets made for the 2023 guidebooks, a sketch of the coastal homelands in 1828, and three maps that are not published.
The creator describes the series this way: “Indexed GIS Maps were created for the Rendezvous Guidebooks that directly connected modern day locations and landscapes with the individual campsites, travel routes, and daily journal entries of Jedediah Smith, Harrison G. Rogers, and Alexander Roderick McLeod. Maps were constructed by Vyla Grinberg, Douglas County GIS.” His own pages spell the surname Grinberg in the text and Grindberg in the file names; the Library has not been able to establish which he intends.
These are large PDFs — the first sheet is 22.7 MB — and the creator publishes no thumbnail of any of them, so there is nothing here to show. Each entry links to his file.
The published sheets
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Hoopa Valley to Klamath River
Sheet 1 of the guidebook map series, covering the first leg in California.
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Klamath River to Winchuck River
Sheet 2, the northern California coast to the Oregon line.
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Winchuck River to Smith River
Sheet 3, the Oregon coast as far as the Umpqua. The creator’s index titles it “Winchuck River to Smith River.”
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Umpqua River to Fort Vancouver
Sheet 4, the inland route north to the Columbia.
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Willamette River to Pacific Coast
Sheet 5, the Hudson’s Bay Company brigade’s march west and the return along the coast.
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Oregon Coast Native Lands 1828
The creator’s own sketch map of the coastal homelands as of 1828 — Siuslaw, Quuiich, Hanis, Miluk — with the tidewater reaches and a few landmarks. Signed “Zybach 20230731.”
Three maps that are not published
Three of the nine maps in the creator’s folder show the ground of the 1828 attack and the burials at a scale at which it could be found. Two are his own; the third is the field map from the 2023 canine search, made by another author. The rule this Library works to is that it does not publish anything that locates an archaeological site, a Native village site or an unmarked grave — and that rule does not bend because the creator has published it himself.
Each keeps its entry below, with its file name, its size and the date it went up, so a reader knows exactly what exists and can ask for it. What is not printed is the link.
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Large-scale map of the memorial ground, sheet 1
A large-scale map of the ground on which the memorial stands and in which the graves lie. The creator’s own file name for it is a place name, so the name is withheld with the map.
Withheld from this edition pending review. The item keeps its place in the register and its permanent link.
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Large-scale map of the memorial ground, sheet 2
A large-scale map of the same ground, and the same reason for withholding the file name.
Withheld from this edition pending review. The item keeps its place in the register and its permanent link.
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Field map accompanying the 4 May 2023 canine search report
The field map that goes with the search report — by Cathy Schneider, Northwest Canine Resources. A third-party work, and a map of where a cadaver dog alerted.
Withheld from this edition pending review. The item keeps its place in the register and its permanent link.
Maps described elsewhere in this series
Three more maps sit in other folders and are catalogued where they belong: the 1857–58 General Land Office survey sheet that the interpretive-sign drafts reproduce, and Don Whereat and Wayne Knauf’s field map of 2001, are on the markers page and the 1828 record page. The 1987 draft’s own bibliography lists every county road map, atlas and quadrangle the creator worked from; it is printed page by page, with one page of it held.
Provenance
- Made by
- Vyla Grindberg, Douglas County GIS, with Bob Zybach; the 1828 homelands sketch is the creator’s own
- Date
- 25 March 2023 for the guidebook series; 31 July 2023 for the homelands sketch
- Published at
- orww.org/1828_Umpqua_Memorial/Maps/
- Held
- 3 of 9 maps withheld: each shows the ground of the attack or the burials at a scale at which it could be found
