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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...
Biography and History. The answers to the question, “Who was Jedediah Smith?” lie in many sources, but the five listed here are good starting places. “A Biography of Jed for Students” on this website. Barbour, Barton. “Jedediah Strong Smith (1799-1831).)”. Oregon Encyclopedia.
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.
Jedediah Strong Smith was one of the first and, arguably, the most important of the American trappers and explorers who penetrated the interior Oregon Country in the 1820s. Prior to his arrival in 1826, almost no American trappers had scoured Oregon, and none produced maps to rival the significance of Smith’s master map, which he drafted ...
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.
Born in Jericho, New York (renamed Bainbridge), on January 6, 1799, Jed Smith grew up hunting and trapping in the forests of New York, Pennsylvania, and Ohio. He also learned to read and write, skills that not all mastered on the American frontier. Jed not only read the Bible, but he also read about the Lewis and Clark expedition.
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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.
