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About Jedediah Smith
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.
Everything about Jedediah Smith →- Occupation
- explorer, cartographer, researcher, trapper
- Citizenship
- United States
- Born
- January 6, 1799
- Died
- May 27, 1831