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Jedediah Smith

1799 - 1831

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Jedediah Strong Smith (January 6, 1799 – May 27, 1831) 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 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 route across the Continental Divide for pioneers on the Oregon Trail. Coming from modest family background, Smith traveled to St. Louis and joined William H. Ashley and Andrew Henry's fur trading company in 1822. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Jedediah Smith is the 266th most popular explorer (down from 220th in 2019), the 4,126th most popular biography from United States (down from 3,112th in 2019) and the 18th most popular American Explorer.

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Among EXPLORERS

Among explorers, Jedediah Smith ranks 266 out of 498. Before him are Julius Popper, Rodrigo de Jerez, Karl Maximovich, Edward Bransfield, Ada Blackjack, and Adolf Lüderitz. After him are Man of the Hole, Francisco Moreno, Afonso Gonçalves Baldaia, Juan Fernández, Hjalmar Johansen, and Aleksei Chirikov.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1799, Jedediah Smith ranks 30. Before him are David Douglas, Ignaz von Döllinger, Duchess Amelia of Württemberg, Countess of Ségur, Ludwig Rellstab, and Philipp Johann Ferdinand Schur. After him are Ferdinand Reich, Henri Druey, Tanaka Hisashige, François-Auguste Biard, Jean Baptiste Boisduval, and Duchess Marie of Württemberg. Among people deceased in 1831, Jedediah Smith ranks 34. Before him are Jean-Louis Pons, Johann Friedrich von Eschscholtz, James Hoban, Sébastien Érard, Ryōkan, and Vasily Golovnin. After him are Franz Krommer, Ferenc Kazinczy, Henry Maudslay, Sarah Siddons, Princess Maria Amalia of Saxony, and Johann Gottlieb Friedrich von Bohnenberger.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Jedediah Smith ranks 4,126 out of 20,380. Before him are Sewall Wright (1889), Patrick Wayne (1939), Charles Doolittle Walcott (1850), Chrissie Hynde (1951), John Ashbery (1927), and Walter Jackson Freeman II (1895). After him are Maggie Gyllenhaal (1977), Julie Newmar (1933), Grace Coolidge (1879), Jack Sherman (1956), Howie Dorough (1973), and Mike White (1970).

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Among EXPLORERS In United States

Among explorers born in United States, Jedediah Smith ranks 18. Before him are Simon Fraser (1776), Don Walsh (1931), Lincoln Ellsworth (1880), Jimmie Angel (1899), Louise Arner Boyd (1887), and Ada Blackjack (1898). After him are Charles Wilkes (1798), Jim Bridger (1804), Roy Chapman Andrews (1884), John C. Frémont (1813), Meriwether Lewis (1774), and Elisha Kent Kane (1820).

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