Blanchard, Smoke, 1915-1989
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Name (Latin)
Blanchard, Smoke, 1915-1989
Other forms of name
Blanchard, William Earl, 1915-1989
Blanchard, Smoke, 1915-
Date of birth
1915-03-03
Date of death
1989-06-23
Associated country
United States
Field of activity
Mountaineering
Truck driving
Occupation
Mountaineers
Truck drivers
Associated Language
eng
Gender
male
MARC
MARC
Other Identifiers
Sources of Information
- Clyde, Norman. Norman Clyde of the Sierra Nevada, 1971:title page (Smoke Blanchard)
- two mountaineer obituaries (William Earl "Smoke" Blanchard; Smoke Blanchard, 74, died a week ago at the Antelope Valley Hospital in Lancaster after suffering major head injuries in an automobile accident near Ridgecrest ( (Obituary, June 30, 1989, Inyo register, via The road genealogist blog, March 25, 2011, viewed online January 10, 2019:) )
- Wikipedia, January 10, 2019(William Earl "Smoke" Blanchard (March 3, 1915-June 23, 1989) was an American mountaineer, climber, trekking leader, guide, world traveler, writer, Buddhist, and a truck driver. He was born in Montana and moved to Portland, Oregon in his early childhood; spent his formative mountaineering years on Mount Hood during the mid to late 1930s. Smoke made his first trip to the Yosemite Valley in 1937 and later that summer stumbled into the Eastern Sierra town of Bishop. He relocated there from Portland before 1942. Smoke's first association with nationally and internationally renowned climbers had started years earlier while still climbing the slopes of Mount Hood and continued after his move to Bishop. Smoke suffered massive head trauma in a camper accident near the town of Mojave and after spending more than a week in intensive care, he died of his injuries on June 23, 1989)
- His Walking up and down in the world, 1984:CIP t.p. (Smoke Blanchard) data sheet (b. 1915)