In 1822, before Jedediah Smith entered the West, it was largely an unknown land, “a wilderness,” he wrote, “of two thousand miles diameter.” During his nine years as a trapper for Ashley and Henr...

Buy Now From Amazon

In 1822, before Jedediah Smith entered the West, it was largely an unknown land, “a wilderness,” he wrote, “of two thousand miles diameter.” During his nine years as a trapper for Ashley and Henry and later for the Rocky Mountain Fur Company, “the mild and Christian young man” blazed the trail westward through South Pass; he was the first to go from the Missouri overland to California, the first to cross the length of Utah and the width of Nevada, first to travel by land up through California and Oregon, first to cross the Sierra Nevada. Before his death on the Santa Fe Trail at the hands of the Comanches, Jed Smith and his partners had drawn the map of the west on a beaver skin.


Similar Products

Jim Bridger: Mountain ManJohn Colter: His Years in the RockiesCrow Killer, New Edition: The Saga of Liver-Eating JohnsonMy Sixty Years on the Plains: Trapping, Trading, and Indian FightingTales of the Mountain Men: Seventeen Stories of Survival, Exploration, and Frontier SpiritThe Saga of Hugh Glass: Pirate, Pawnee, and Mountain ManJournal Of A Trapper: Nine Years in the Rocky Mountains 1834-1843Hugh Glass