Carmen R. Smith
Carmen R. Smith (1917–2018) was a native of the Gila Valley in Arizona. She attended Gila Junior College, Woodbury Business College, Brigham Young University, and served an LDS Church mission to Mexico. She married Omer Smith, a grandson of Lot Smith. Her report of the rediscovery of the Mormon Battalion's Lost Well in 1978 was awarded the Utah Historical Quarterly Editor's Choice.
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en is the co-author of Lot Smith: Mormon Pioneer and American Frontiersman.