Jedediah Smith
(1799-1831)
American explorer
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Jedediah Strong Smith (January 6, 1799 – May 27, 1831), was an American clerk, transcontinental pioneer, frontiersman, hunter, trapper, author, cartographer, and explorer of the Rocky Mountains, the North American West, 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 point of crossing the Continental Divide for pioneers on the Oregon Trail.
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6 January 1799 Bainbridge, New York, U.S.
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27 May 1831 (aged 32) Northern Mexico Territory, south of present-day Ulysses, Grant County, Kansas
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