Reports and the creator’s writings

The three photographic reports

The creator’s own record of the memorial being made: choosing the stone at a quarry near North Bend, moving it to the mouth of the Smith River, casting the bronze plaque at a foundry at Wamic, and the dedication at sunset on 28 October 2023. Each is a run of photographs with his captions under them; what is printed here is the caption text, page by page.

• Photographic Report of June 14, 2023 JSS Umpqua Memorial Field Trip

  Bob Zybach, Chair, JSS Umpqua Memorial Committee; with David Gould, Coos Bay Timber Operators, and Dale Hanson, Pacific Memorials · 15 June 2023 · 9 pages · 1 held · 8.8M as he posts it

  Nine photographs with the creator’s captions, made on a field trip to the Main Rock quarry at North Bend to choose the stone for the memorial, and to look at the existing state highway marker. The last pages set out the reasoning for an inset bronze plaque and print the roll of names proposed for it.

• Photographic Report #2: June 21, 2023 JSS Umpqua Memorial Stone Placement

  Bob Zybach, Chair, JSS Umpqua Memorial Committee; with David Gould, Coos Bay Timber Operators, Mike Main, Main Rock, and Josh Mast, Mast Brothers · 22 June 2023 · 9 pages · 2 held · 13.8M as he posts it

  The day the stone was moved: loaded at the quarry on Kentuck Creek, hauled to the mouth of the Smith River, and set by a tow truck lent for the purpose. Photographs and captions by the creator, naming the businesses and the people who did the work.

• Photographic Report #3: October 28, 2023 SJ&S Umpqua Memorial Stone Dedication

  Bob Zybach, Chair, ORWW 1828 Umpqua Memorial Committee; with David Gould, Larry Hager, Stu Richardson and Cathy Schneider · 6 November 2023 · 12 pages · 2 held · 12.1M as he posts it

  The bronze plaque being cast at a foundry at Wamic, the stone being cut to take it, the newspaper coverage, and the dedication at sunset on 28 October 2023 — the 195th anniversary of the burial. The last two pages carry the project’s own list of sponsors.

Articles, drafts and talks

Thirty-six years of the creator’s own writing on this subject, from a student draft submitted to an English department in 1987 to the article that led the Jedediah Smith Society’s journal in spring 2023.

• “The People, Foods, and Landscapes of 1828”: the 2023 Rendezvous, in Castor Canadensis, the Journal of the Jedediah Smith Society

  Bob Zybach · 22 May 2023 · 12 pages · 1 held · 4.6M as he posts it

  The creator’s account of the four-day 2023 Rendezvous, written for the Jedediah Smith Society’s journal: how the route was reconstructed, who planned it, what the party saw on each day, and what he takes the 1828 record to show about the men who were killed.

• Guidebook Instructions

  Bob Zybach · 22 May 2023 · 2 pages · 13.0M as he posts it

  Two pages explaining how the four Rendezvous guidebooks were meant to be used on the ground, worked through the first stop of the first day.

• A. Black, Jedediah Smith, and the Location of the Hudson’s Bay Company Pack Trails in Northwest Oregon in 1828 — Second Draft and Outline

  Bob Zybach · 14 December 1987 · 93 pages · 3 held · 11.3M as he posts it

  The earliest piece of this work: a ninety-three-page student draft written for the Department of English at Oregon State University, reconstructing the escape routes of Arthur Black and of the Smith party from the surviving journals, and the Hudson’s Bay Company brigade’s return that autumn. Its appendices summarise the men on both sides and list every map the author consulted.

• 2023 Rendezvous — presentation to the Northwest Chapter, Oregon-California Trails Association, 8 April 2023

  Bob Zybach · 8 April 2023 · 47 pages · 8.7M as he posts it

  Forty-seven slides given to the Oregon-California Trails Association three days after the Rendezvous ended. Most slides are pictures and map details; what is printed here is the text on them — guidebook covers, journal passages, and the roll of the men with Smith.

The four 2023 guidebooks

One guidebook for each day of the 2023 Rendezvous, built around the journal entries for the corresponding days of 1826–1830, campsite by named campsite. The creator wrote in them that they are “fully intended to be used on a local basis for current and future research, recreational, and educational purposes.”

• Guidebook #1: California Redwoods, 2 May – 22 June 1828

  Bob Zybach, assisted by Joe Molter · 26 March 2023 · 32 pages · 3.5M as he posts it

  Day one of the Rendezvous: “Travels Through the Lands of Hoopa, Yurok, and Tolowa, by Jedediah Smith and Harrison Roger.” Sixteen named campsites, each with the journal entries for that day.

• Guidebook #2: Oregon Coast, 23 June – 13 July 1828

  Bob Zybach, assisted by Joe Molter · 26 March 2023 · 28 pages · 2.6M as he posts it

  “Travels Through the Lands of Tolowa, Tututni, Nasomah, Miluk, Hanis & Quuiich, by Alexander McLeod, Jedediah Smith & Harrison Rogers.” Twenty campsites from the Winchuck River to the entry of 13 July 1828, the last day Rogers wrote in his journal.

• Guidebook #3: HBC California Trail, 8 August – 10 December 1828

  Bob Zybach, assisted by Joe Molter · 26 March 2023 · 34 pages · 1 held · 5.6M as he posts it

  “Travels Through the Lands of Chinook, Kalapuyan, Umpqua, Quuiich, Siuslaw & Hanis, by John McLoughlin, Alexander McLeod & Jedediah Smith.” The Hudson’s Bay Company brigade’s march south and the return along the coast, including the entry for 28 October 1828.

• Guidebook #4: Fort Vancouver, 26 December 1828 – 30 October 1830

  Bob Zybach, assisted by Joe Molter · 26 March 2023 · 18 pages · 4.6M as he posts it

  The aftermath in correspondence: George Simpson’s letters to Smith of December 1828, his March 1829 dispatch, the London committee’s letter to McLoughlin of October 1830, and Smith, Jackson & Sublette’s letter to Secretary of War Eaton of 30 October 1830.

A report by another author

One of the four files in the creator’s Reports folder is not his. On 2 May 2023 Cathy Schneider of Northwest Canine Resources, Oakland, Oregon, worked a trained cadaver dog over the ground and filed a report two days later, with a field map that is kept in the Maps folder. The creator’s index describes it as a report “on the success of Max, her trained cadaver dog, to locate apparent human remains near the location of the Gordon and Whereat surveys.”

It is a third-party work, and its subject is where human remains lie. The Library catalogues it — author, date, length, where the creator hosts it — and publishes nothing out of it. The same applies to the field map on the maps page and to the six photographs on the photographs page.