Jedediah Smith
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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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Regions of the Missouri River Watershed
Arikara warriorBodmer (1840-1843)
19th-century depiction of a grizzly bear attack
Crow IndiansBodmer (1840-1843)
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.In their orbit 2
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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. 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.
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