Jedediah Smith: Trailblazer And A Brigade Leader

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Jedediah Smith 1799-1831 Kennedy Pierce Jedediah Smith was a trailblazer and a brigade leader. He was a partner in two fur-companies. Was the first to transverse the Sierra Nevada and the first to cross the Great Basin Desert. In 1824 helped a destitute party of Hudson’s Bay Company trappers get back to the Flathead house. In 1825 he moved his group from Salt Lake to California. In 1826 he was sent ahead of the west bound pack train to arrange for the rendezvous held that year in Cache Valley and in the spring of 1827 Smith and two of his trappers left the remaining party on the Stanislaus river. He

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