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Jedediah Strong Smith (January 6, 1799 – May 27, 1831) 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.
May 23, 2024 · Jedediah Smith (born January 6, 1799, Bainbridge, New York, U.S.—died May 27, 1831, near the Cimarron River) was a trader and explorer who was the first American to enter California from the east and return from it using an overland route. Smith probably made his first trip west while still in his teens.
Nov 18, 2023 · Jedediah Smith was born in present-day Bainbridge, New York on January 6, 1799. His parents were Jedediah Smith and Sally Strong. Both were descended from New England Puritans and held tight to their religious convictions, which were passed on to their 12 children. During his years on the American Frontier, the younger Smith was well-known for ...
Nov 16, 2009 · Jedediah Smith, one of the nation’s most important trapper-explorers, is killed by Comanche tribesman on the Santa Fe Trail. Smith’s role in exploring the Far West was not fully realized until ...
Assign students to read one of the three biographies of Jed listed above. Now ask them to draw conclusions about the type of person Jed was, supporting their conclusions with facts from one or more of the bios. Students could then share their lists of conclusions orally. Now restrict the focus. Ask students to think of the one quality of Jed ...
Jedediah Strong Smith was a mountain man, explorer, and trailblazer who explored the Rocky Mountains, the American West, and the Southwest during the early 19th century. Arikara Warrior by Karl Bodmer. Smith was born on January 6, 1799, in Bainbridge, New York, but was raised in Pennsylvania and Ohio. After receiving some education and a strong ...
In 1822, Jedediah Smith, a twenty-three-year old New Yorker, arrived in St. Louis, Missouri, where he found employment as a hunter with William H. Ashley and Andrew Henry’s fur-trading company. He accompanied Ashley and Henry’s fur-trapping brigade bound for the Rocky Mountains and spent the next decade as a mountain man, gaining renown as ...
Nov 16, 2009 · Jedediah Strong Smith, one of America’s greatest trapper-explorers, is born in Bainbridge, New York. Smith explored a stunningly large area of the American West during his short life. He began ...
Jedediah S. Smith (1799-1831), trapper, fur trader, and explorer in the American West, was one of the most skillful of the mountain men, although most of his accomplishments were recognized only recently. Jedediah Smith's activities in the West occurred between 1822 and 1831, a period of rapid American penetration into the Rocky Mountain area ...
The Jedediah Smith Trail along the American river in Sacramento was one of his many projects for the land, people, and freedom of this country. The 200th birth year of Jedediah was celebrated throughout the nation in 1999. Dinner with a speaker took place in Washington, South Dakota, and California. At his birthplace, Jerrico NY, now called ...
