Jedediah Smith
American explorer (1799-1831) · United States · On the map · Historical Figures · Died at 32
Jedediah Strong Smith was an American clerk, transcontinental pioneer, frontiersman, hunter, trapper, author, cartographer, mountain man and explorer of the Rocky Mountains, the Western United States, and the Southwest during the early 19th century.
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Jedediah Smith's party crossing the burning Mojave Desert during the 1826 trek to California by Frederic Remington
Father Sánchez gave Jedediah and LaPlant a lavish dinner at Mission San Gabriel.About this person
After 75 years of obscurity following his death, Smith was rediscovered as the American whose explorations led to the use of the 20-mile (32 km)-wide South Pass as the dominant route across the Continental Divide for pioneers on the Oregon Trail.
