Jedediah Smith, American hunter, explorer, and author (born 1799)

Jedediah Smith

American explorer (1799–1831)

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…