Jedediah Smith and the Opening of the West
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About Jedediah Smith and the Opening of the West
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.
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- Audience
- Adult/general
- Commitment
- Standalone or self-contained
- Estimated reading time
- 12.0 hours at about 40 pages per hour
- Length
- Standard-length read
- Best for
- Readers seeking mountain men nonfiction
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Jedediah Smith and the Opening of the West by Dale L. Morgan, published in 1953, is a 474-page book for readers who prefer to browse by the experience of a story, not only by its sales category. Its strongest discovery signals include Mountain Men Nonfiction.
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- Print ISBN
- 978-0-803-25138-0
- Published
- 1953
- Pages
- 474
