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	Jedediah Smith - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Jedediah Strong Smith (born June 24, 1799 - presumed date of death May 27, 1831) was a hunter, trapper, fur trader and explorer of the Rocky Mountains, the American West Coast and the Southwest during the 19th century.
		Jedediah Smith's explorations were significant in opening the American West to expansion by white settlers, mostly from New England, Missouri and Europe.
		Smith was born in Bainbridge, New York, or, according to Sullivan, in Jericho, New York on January 6, 1799.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Jedediah_Smith (1040 words)

	Jedediah Smith
		Smith’s abilities easily gained the confidence of those around him, and he quickly rose to leadership of a brigade of mountain men, a group of self-reliant men who were seldom commanded, but would willing follow those in whom they had confidence.
		To Smith this meant the populated portion of California, and once across the San Bernardino Mountains, he proceeded northward along the west flank of the Sierra Nevada Mountains, trapping and seeking the Rio Buenaventura River, which Smith expected to be able to follow back to the 1827 rendezvous.
		Smith described a land of “High rocky hills afford the only relief to the desolate waste… The intervals between are sand barren Plains.” Tormented by thirst and heat, the horses giving out, exhausted by their struggles through the loose sand, even the confident Smith lost hope of surviving.
	home.att.net /~mman/Smith.htm (2422 words)

	Jedediah S. Smith
		Jedediah S. Smith was a trailblazer, brigade leader, and partner in two fur-trading companies whose travels took him throughout Utah and the West.
		Smith, with seventeen men, pushed south to appraise the trapping potential of the region south and west of the Great Salt Lake.
		Smith proceeded along the Virgin River to its confluence with the Colorado River, and then continued south to the Mojave villages.
	historytogo.utah.gov /people/jedediahssmith.html (799 words)

	Jedediah Smith in Kansas
		Smith's initial path-breaking efforts followed watercourses and Indian paths, which ultimately led to what would be one of the great overland routes to the Pacific--the Oregon Trail.
		In subsequent expeditions, Smith and his fellow associates and companions were to travel a similar route through Kansas in their travels except it became refined to conform more to the recognized route of the Oregon Trail, which was traveled heavily in its heyday of the 1840s and 1850s.
		Jedediah Smith's efforts at establishing new routes and trails in Kansas led directly to the formation of a trail that was to prove instrumental, not only to the settlement and commerce of the American West, but to the state of Kansas in its early development.
	www.kshs.org /portraits/smith_jedediah.htm (323 words)

	Jedediah Smith in Oregon
		Jedediah Smith is regarded as one of America's trailblazers, yet his expedition to Oregon and its disastrous end is not commonly known to Oregonians.
		Jedediah Smith was born in New York in 1799 and while still a child, moved with his family to Pennsylvania and then to Ohio.
		Smith and another seized him and tied a cord around his neck to scare him into revealing the location of the axe while the other trappers stood by with guns drawn in case there was resistance from the other 50 Indians present.
	www.endoftheoregontrail.org /oregontrails/jedsmith.html (3435 words)

	BookRags: Jedediah S. Smith Biography
		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 and of phenomenal growth in American fur trading and trapping.
		Smith was a slender man, perhaps 6 feet tall, with brown hair, blue eyes, and noticeable scars from his encounter with the grizzly.
	www.bookrags.com /biography/jedediah-s-smith (1200 words)

	Jedediah Smith - Biographic Notes
		Jedediah heard of the father's complaint and wrote a letter explaining his continued presence in California as being due to his inability to cross the Sierras.
		Smith's part was to return to California and rejoin the party that he had left on the Stanislaus and then trap his way north to the mouth of the Columbia River.
		Jedediah was away from camp at the time of the attack and was thus one of several men not killed.
	www.inn-california.com /Articles/biographic/jedediahsmithbio.html (1486 words)

	Jedediah Strong Smith
		Pictures of Jedediah's route were presented by Joe Molter, an authority on Jed Smith, at the Tehama Historical Society, the evening of January 22, 2002.
		Jedediah Strong Smith entered California's San Bernardino Valley to become the first American to cross the southwestern part of the American continent.
		Smith was not your typical mountain man. He was tall, silent and never used tobacco or profanity, never boasted.
	www.geocities.com /cott1388/jedediah.html (1007 words)

	Jedediah Smith (DesertUSA)
		Jedediah Smith is probably the most famous of all "Mountain Men" -- those fur-clad, grizzled individuals who were first to explore the American West in search of pelts and adventure.
		Jedediah Smith, was born June 24, 1798, at Bainbridge, New York.
		A Birthday Celebration for Jedediah Smith is held in January at the Stockton, California Wildlife Museum.
	www.desertusa.com /mag99/feb/papr/jsmith.html (897 words)

	Duel of Ages [Jedediah Smith]
		Jedediah Smith was much more than a mountain man. He saw most of the West, on foot or horse.
		Jedediah Smith wasn't just a tall, tough mountain man. He saw most of the West, on foot or horse.
		Jedediah also survived a vicious mauling by a grizzly bear, which tore one ear off and left the entire rest of the scalp hanging by the other ear.
	www.duelofages.com /history/character.php?ID=68 (299 words)

	Book Review
		Brooks, who originally was working with the advice and encouragement of Dale Morgan (Jedediah Smith and the Opening of the West, 1953) until the latter's death in 1971, has gone to the original Parkman transcripts and edited a complete version of the 1826-27 first expedition which incorporates both transcripts.
		Jedediah Strong Smith was a worthy successor to Meriwether Lewis and William Clark.
		Smith's second expedition of 1827-28, in which he returned to his encampment on the Stanislaus with reinforcements and additional supplies, is not part of the scope of Brooks' account.
	www.sandiegohistory.org /journal/78fall/br-smith.htm (843 words)

	San Joaquin Valley History - Jedediah Smith and French Camp California - Virtual San Joaquin of Stockton Lodi Tracy ...
		Young Jedediah read Biddle's 1814 edition of the Lewis and Clark journals and from that moment on was set on living the life of a wilderness explorer.
		Smith and his men entered the Green River area and trapped during the spring of 1824.
		In late 1827, Jedediah and his men returned to Southern California along the Colorado River route explored earlier, but the Mojave Indians attacked them killing 10 of the 18 men in the party and capturing all of their horses.
	www.virtuallodi.com /history/JedediahSmith.asp (1077 words)

	Amazon.ca: Jedediah Smith and the Opening of the West: Books: Dale Lowell Morgan (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-02)
		Jedediah Smith ranks second only to Lewis and Clark as an explorer of this region and Dale L. Morgan's biography stands up remarkably well to the changing perspectives on the history of this subject in the fifty-plus years since its first publication.
		The saga of Jedediah Smith began at age 23, and ended ten years later, in 1831, when, on the Santa Fe trail, he was killed by indians when he stopped for a drink from a stream.
		Jedediah's territory covered the then unknown expanse ranging from the confluence of the Yellowstone and the Missouri Rivers, current site of Fort Union where I purchased my book, to Oregon, California as far south as LA, east along the Old Spanish Trial and the Gila River as well as into NM and everywhere in between.
	www.amazon.ca /Jedediah-Smith-Opening-Lowell-Morgan/dp/0803251386 (1322 words)

	Jedediah Smith
		Jedediah Smith was born at Bainbridge, New York, on 6th January, 1799.
		Smith was unable to find "beaver water" and instead of retracing his steps decided to cross the Mojave Desert.
		Smith understood as being confined to the district claimed by the Shoshone Indians.
	www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /WWsmithJ.htm (3314 words)

	New Page 1
		Jedediah Smith, the bible carrying mountain man and fur trapper, explored and mapped most of the Far West in the 1820's from Colorado and Wyoming, to Utah, California and Oregon.
		On the 25th of May, Smith's wagons broke camp on the south side of the Arkansas River.
		One of the most tragic deaths on the Jornada was in may 1831, when Jedediah Strong Smith, age 32 lost his life near Lower Spring at the hands of the Commanche.
	www.historicadobemuseum.org /exhibits/sft/jedsmith/jedediahsmith.htm (912 words)

	Jedediah Smith
		Smith and the others retraced their earlier route to San Gabriel Mission, then north to the old camp on the Stanislaus River, arriving September 18.
		Smith was perhaps the greatest of the mountain men, and one of the strongest characters among them.
		Smith was more than 6 feet tall, spare, a man of great courage, vision, dedication and persistence; so far as the records shows he was not a man of much humor, but that is guess work since there is no way for those unacquainted with him in person to judge.
	www.3rd1000.com /history3/biography/jsmith.htm (816 words)

	Utah History Encyclopedia
		JEDEDIAH S. Jedediah S. Smith was a trailblazer, brigade leader, and partner in two fur-trading companies whose travels took him throughout Utah and the West.
		In the spring of 1823 Smith was sent downriver to find Ashley's main group, at which time he proved his worth as a leader.
		Hafen and Harvey L. Carter, eds., Mountain Men and the Fur Traders of the Far West (1982); Dale L. Morgan, Jedediah Smith and the Opening of the West (1964); Dale L. Morgan, ed., The West of William H. Ashley (1964).
	www.media.utah.edu /UHE/s/SMITH,JEDEDIAH.html (863 words)

	Mountain Man Jedediah Smith (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-02)
		At the age of 22, Jedediah Smith signed on with the expedition of General William Ashley to travel to the Upper Missouri and trap beaver.
		According to family tradition, young Jedediah read Biddle's 1814 edition of the Lewis and Clark journals and was set on living a life in the wilderness.
		Though he was an accomplished outdoorsman, Smith did not fit the stereotype of the typical mountain man. He never drank, never used tobacco, never boasted and was rarely humorous.
	xroads.virginia.edu /~HYPER/HNS/Mtmen/jedesmith.html (616 words)

	Jedediah Strong Smith
		In fact, Jedediah was the first American to enter California overland from the east (across the forbidden Mojave Desert) and the first to cross the enormous Great Basin Desert and return east, overland from California.
		While still in his teens, Jedediah joined a fur-trading expedition to the Rocky Mountains, becoming one of the original "Ashley Men," trappers under the command of William Ashley.
		Jedediah Smith Society: History Department, University of the Pacific, Stockton, CA 95211.
	klesinger.com /jbp/jsmith.html (885 words)

	SAN DIMAS REMEMBERED - JEDEDIAH STRONG SMITH (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-02)
		Jedediah was one of seven sons, born when it was the duty of a woman to work hard, fear God, and bear her husband many sons.
		Jedediah Smith and his partners were most successful- he was able to buy a house for himself in St. Louis where he made a home for two of his brothers.
		Jedediah Smith was familiar with our country from the Missouri River to the Pacific, and from Mexico to Canada.
	www.sandimasnews.com /history/13.html (545 words)

	Exploration of the Sierra Nevada, "Jedediah Smith and the American Trappers," by Francis P. Farquhar (1925)
		In 1826 Jedediah Strong Smith, having recently formed a partnership with David E. Jackson and William L. Sublette in the fur trade, set out from Great Salt Lake towards the southwest, prospecting for a new and untried beaver country.
		The precise movements of Jedediah Smith and his party will probably never be known, as the record of the next few months is very meager.
		The character and capabilities of the men were such that it would not have been out of the question for them to have come down the eastern side of the Sierra and over one of the passes that later became well known.
	www.yosemite.ca.us /library/exploration_of_the_sierra_nevada/smith.html (606 words)

	Jedediah Strong Smith (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-02)
		A great tragedy of Trail days was the senseless death of a great man. Jedediah Smith, the Bible carrying mountain man and fur trapper, explored and mapped most of the Far West in the 1820s, from Colorado and Wyoming to Utah, California and Oregon.
		Jedediah Smith and Tom Fitzpatrick left the halted caravan and began the search for the Spring.
		Smith tried to communicate with them in sign language, but they were interested only in his horse and his guns.
	www.stjohnks.net /santafetrail/wagonbed/jedediahsmith.html (1192 words)

	Jedediah Smith Map 1826-1827
		From the time that Jedediah Smith left the rendezvous in July, 1826 until arriving at the following years rendezvous on July 3, 1827, he and his party were inside the territory claimed by Mexico.
		Jedediah was probably in part saved from incarceration by his partnership with William Ashley (a General, albeit in the Missouri Militia) and his trading (trapping) license signed by William Clark (of Lewis and Clark, now an official with the National Government)
		Finally Jedediah was released, under the promise that he leave California the way he entered.
	home.att.net /~mman/Smith1826.htm (323 words)

	JSS
		Those who understand the history of photography and the early demise of Jedediah Smith know that a photograph of the stalwart mountain man is an impossibility.
		A sketch identified by author Maurice Sullivan who had access to family papers is said to be a picture of Jedediah Smith “made by a friend from memory, after Smith’s death.” The sketch appeared in Sullivan’s The Travels of Jedediah Smith, a documentary outline (Santa Ana, CA The Fine Arts Press, 1934).
		Harvey Dunn, Jedediah Smith in the Badlands, appeared on the cover of Together magazine, June 1960; as the cover of The Pacific Historian vol.
	www.jedediahsmithsociety.org /images.html (822 words)

	Jedediah Smith Redwoods State Park overview
		Almost all of the park land is watershed for the Smith River and Mill Creek, a major tributary.
		The Smith River and Mill Creek are especially known for the king salmon and steelhead trout runs in the fall and winter.
		The park is named after the intrepid explorer, Jedediah Strong Smith who was the first white man to explore the interior of northern California.
	www.humboldtredwoods.org /jedsmithoverview.htm (556 words)

	Leaders and Legends - Jedediah Smith: Life Story (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-02)
		Jedediah Smith knew the West better than any other man, and he saw more of it than any of the early explorers, including Lewis and Clark, whose journals are said to have inspired his career.
		Smith was 23 years old in the spring of 1822, when he applied to join Generals Ashley and Henry in their fur trade ventures.
		Smith was well liked and respected by his peers, particularly Tom (Broken Hand) Fitzpatrick.
	www.leadersandlegends.com /jedsmith/lifestory.html (529 words)

	Smith Wild and Scenic River, California (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-02)
		The segment from the confluence of the Middle Fork Smith River and the North Fork Smith River to its mouth at the Pacific Ocean.
		The Smith River is one of the crown jewels of the National Wild and Scenic River System, which recognizes and protects rivers across the country.
		The Smith River National Recreation Area (NRA) is located in the northwest corner of California and is managed by the Six Rivers National Forest.
	www.nps.gov /rivers/wsr-smith.html (758 words)

	Jedediah Smith
		Born in Bainbridge, New York, young Jedediah Strong Smith moved with his family as they pressed westward in an effort to remain at the frontier.
		Smith supposedly read of the Lewis and Clark expedition as a small boy and was inspired by that great adventure.
		On May 27, Smith was encircled and killed by Comanche warriors at a watering hole near the Cimarron River in New Mexico.
	www.u-s-history.com /pages/h315.html (317 words)

	Oregon History - Jedediah Smith
		Jedediah Smith, making the first recorded overland trip from California, followed the Oregon Coast northward and on July 13, 1828 camped with seventeen trappers on the north bank of Smith River Channel five-eighths of a mile northeast of this point.
		The following morning, while Smith and two companions went forward to find a river crossing, the Indians came into camp and massacred all but one man. Smith and the survivors escaped to Fort Vancouver, whereupon John McLaughlin sent an expedition to the Umpqua, recovering some of Smith's furs and equipment.
		Jedediah Smith had three ambitions: to serve his God, to provide for his family, and to become a great American explorer.
	www.oregon.com /history/hm/jedediah_smith.cfm (147 words)

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