Jedediah Smith Society Collection, 1943-

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Jedediah Smith Society Collection, 1943-

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University of the Pacific. Library. Holt-Atherton Department of Special Collections

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Sublette, William Lewis, 1799-1845

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Jedediah Smith Society

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Jedediah Strong Smith (1799-1831) was first American to enter California by an overland route. His travels (1822-1831) demonstrated feasible routes across West to California. Smith trapped first along Missouri River under William Ashley and Andrew Henry. He rediscovered South Pass, Wyo. (1824) a passageway from high plains into Pacific Northwest. Formed partnership with David Jackson and William Sublette to trap in Pacific Coast region (1826). Trapped and explored in central California and Orego...

Smith, Jedediah Strong, 1799-1831

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Jedediah Strong Smith was born June 24, 1799 in Bainbridge, Chenango County, New York. He was the son of Jedediah Smith of New Hampshire and was the eldest of fourteen children. Jedediah's early childhood was spent in Ohio where he received and English and Latin education. At thirteen he became a clerk on a Lake Erie freighter where he learned business methods and met traders returning from the Far West. Jedediah became ambitious for an adventure to the wilderness and he went to St. Louis around...

Jackson, David E.

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Ashley, William Henry, 1778-1838

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William Smith was a judge, lawyer, and military man in Missouri. From the guide to the William Smith certificate of appointment, 1824, (L. Tom Perry Special Collections) American fur trader, explorer, and U.S. Congressman, 1831-37. From the guide to the William Henry Ashley letters, 1828, 1836, (The New York Public Library. Manuscripts and Archives Division.) ...